Ten Favorite Novels About Motherhood

(by request, and alphabetically by author)

 

  • If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz

  • The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

  • The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

  • Florida by Lauren Groff

  • The Bad Seed by William March

  • The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

  • The Need by Helen Phillips

  • Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

  • The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

  • Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

— February 7, 2022


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