Still Here Thinking of You: A Second Chance with Our Mothers

by Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter, Lori Toppel

Overview

Month after forming a writers group, four women from very different backgrounds found themselves unexpectedly writing about their mothers. In the process, not only did their understanding of one another deepen, but their perceptions of their mothers were transformed. With humor, tenderness, pain, and sorrow, Still Here Thinking of You taps into that universal pulse that never stops beating: the bond between mother and daughter.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016316932
Publisher:	Big Table Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	246
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Vicki Addesso began writing memoir in 1998 and is working on a collection of short stories. Her work has been published by damselfly press.

Susan Hodara is a journalist, memoirist, and teacher. Her short memoirs have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies; one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her articles are published in the New York Times, Communication Arts, and other publications. She has taught memoir writing since 2003.

Joan Potter is a writer and teacher whose work has been published in magazines, newspapers, literary journals, and anthologies. Her most recent book is African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America (Kensington, 2009).

Lori Toppel’s novel, Three Children (Summit Books, 1992), was nominated for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in such journals as Antioch Review and Del Sol Review.

The authors all live and work in Westchester County, NY.

Editorial Reviews

These stories take us to the heart of where we all live, the endless bond between mother and child. They are honest and lyrical, painful and funny, a final reckoning and a testament to the vanished past – soul work right there on the page.

John H. Richardson

These memoirs hit close to the bone. They're about misunderstandings,
secrets, and sacrifices, but most of all, love.

Vanessa Williams

Our mothers, the ever-present measure of ourselves and the choices we’ve made, shape us even after they’re gone. These four courageous writers take on the nearly impossible task of writing about their mothers, exploring the indelible yet ever-changing terrain of maternal memory. Their stories are pierced with candor, regret and love – and will make you pick up the phone to call your mom, or make you wish you still could.

Judith Dupré

In Still Here Thinking of You, the authors have woven a tapestry of four individual memoirs of their mothers into a larger meditation on the sometimes fraught, often intense mother-daughter relationship. As each writer creates a compelling portrait of the woman who raised her, she also tries to come to terms with who her mother was. Still Here Thinking of You is a lovely, absorbing collection.

Kate Stone Lombardi