some book recs that involve the complexities of motherhood: the tough and tender, chaotic and beautiful, exhausting and full of purpose.
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Immaculate Conception
Ling Ling Huang
Peach Blossom Spring
Melissa Fu
Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
The Woman Destroyed
Simone de Beauvoir
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Maame
Jessica George
Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason
My Work
Olga Ravn
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Girl, Woman, Other
Saffron Alexander
Tilt
Emma Pattee
Like Mother, Like Mother
Susan Rieger
Circe
Madeline Miller
Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
Look How Happy I'm Making You
Polly Rosenwaike
The Turtle House
Amanda Churchill
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Mother Country
Jacinda Townsend
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
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