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• If You Love Me

  A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction

  Cavanagh, Maureen

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  Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureen’s incredible odyssey into the opioid crisis—first as a parent, then as an advocate—is ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story.

• White Walls

  A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between

  Batalion, Judy

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  Thrown into chaos by motherhood, Judy Batalion's reflections on the lives of her mother and grandmother, both Polish immigrants who escaped the Holocaust, allow her to discover the deep connections the three generations share, despite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dead Moms Club

  a Memoir About Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses

  Spencer, Kate, 1979-

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  Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too.

• A Mother's Reckoning

  Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

  Klebold, Sue

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  The mother of one of the two shooters at Columbine High School draws on personal recollections, journal entries and video recordings to piece together what led to her son's unpredicted breakdown and share insights into how other families…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for Daisy

  a Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

  Orenstein, Peggy

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  A memoir of the author's quest for motherhood details her six-year odyssey from her decision to have a baby, through her desperate pursuit of everything humanly possible to achieve her goal, to the repercussions of the ordeal for her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stuck in the Middle With You

  a Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

  Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-

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  Filled with interviews that examine relationships with fathers and mothers, this memoir about gender and parenting follows the author as she transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother.

• Where the Light Gets in

  Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

  Williams-Paisley, Kimberly, 1971-

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  Actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley shares the story of her mother's diagnosis with a rare and early form of dementia, exploring how the disease has affected their relationship and prompted her advocacy of Alzheimer's awareness.

• Giving Up the Ghost

  a Memoir

  Mantel, Hilary, 1952-

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  In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

  a Memoir

  McCracken, Elizabeth

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  The author traces her marriage and relocation to France at the height of her writing career, her devastation over her stillborn son in her ninth month of pregnancy, and her heart-wrenching grieving process.

• All You Can Ever Know

  A Memoir

  Chung, Nicole

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  Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Waiting

  on Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

  Boggs, Belle

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  The author describes her struggle to conceive a child and in the process explores the natural, medical, psychological and political facets of fertility.

• The Good Daughter

  a Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life

  Darznik, Jasmin, 1973-

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  A memoir in which the author, raised in the United States since the age of three, and chided by her mother with tales of "the good daughter," discusses her discovery that her mother was married at the age of thirteen in Iran and was forced…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Nights

  Didion, Joan

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  Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.

• Jessica Lost

  a Story of Birth, Adoption & the Meaning of Motherhood

  Crumpacker, Bunny

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  A mother and her child, lost and then found again after four decades: this extraordinary story of love, loss, and reunion is told in alternating voices by the two women, each relating her own powerful experience. For the mother, it's the…Read moreRead more of this annotation