The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood

"Timely and evergreen, engaging and infuriating, personal and universal—a necessary reintroduction to some of fiction's most familiar mothers." —Cecile Richards, bestselling author of Make Trouble and former president of Planned Parenthood

A smart and engaging look at fifteen classic novels that have shaped our cultural notions of motherhood.

Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? W...