Mother Is a Place

A story of growing toward motherhood via chosen family, sickness, literature, and nature.

When Amra Brooks' parents split, so did her life-half lived with her queer, punk, addict dad in Los Angeles, and half with her struggling mom in Santa Cruz. With a poetic tone and an eye for rough beauty, Mother is a Place details one girl's dogged search for safety and care, a pursuit that brings her from idyllic literary studies to nannying for an iconic, out-of-control rock star, from her mysteriousl...