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Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood

Edited by Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies

Washington Square Press, 353 pages, $14 paper

This anthology, assembled by sisters, reflects the range of relationships between mother and child. “Mothers,” Linda B. Swanson-Davies writes in the foreword of this astonishing collection. “We have them, we lose them, we shun them, we need them, we become them or we don’t. There is always love and loss. And there are stories.”