J. Nicole Jones’s Family Preservation
Is this, when it comes right down to it, the difference between creating a family and creating a piece of art? Does art rely upon individuality while family-making siphons from it?
Shirley Jackson’s Motivating Motherhood
I wonder: would having babies motivate me? Would it supercharge my focus and force me to finish my book?
Vivian Gornick’s Mothers & Daughters
It’s not surprising, I suppose, that I should worry that being a full person is incompatible with being a mother: in the narrative I have of my own mother’s life, her tenure as a person appears to end with me.