motherhood
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Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alison Stine
Alison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
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What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
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Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray
“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”



