＂Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner,
and many other notable writers. Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity,
diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mother showcases the experiences of ordinary people of all racial, gender, and age backgrounds, from
every corner of the country. This collection of essays celebrates and validates what it means to be a mother today, with honesty and candor that is arrestingly stimulating and refreshing.
Thestories are raw, honest, poignant, and sometimes raunchy, ranging from adoption, assimilation to emptying nests; first-time motherhood, foster-parenting, to infertility; single-parenting,
LGBTQ parenting, to special-needs parenting; step-mothering; nevermothering, to surrogacy; and mothering through illness to mothering through unsolicited advice. Honest, funny, and
heart-wrenching, these personal stories are the collective voice of mothers among us. Whether you are one, have one, or know one, Listen toYour Mother is an emotional whirlwind that is
guaranteed to entertain, amuse, and enlighten. ＂--
