We Got This
Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor
Herausgeber: Lindholm, Marika; Ruta, Domenica; Shonk, Katherine; Dumesnil, Cheryl
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Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor
Herausgeber: Lindholm, Marika; Ruta, Domenica; Shonk, Katherine; Dumesnil, Cheryl
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In the U.S., more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. Here 75 solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives--their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs.mphs.
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In the U.S., more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. Here 75 solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives--their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs.mphs.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: She Writes Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781631526565
- ISBN-10: 1631526561
- Artikelnr.: 55394925
- Verlag: She Writes Press
- Seitenzahl: 352
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781631526565
- ISBN-10: 1631526561
- Artikelnr.: 55394925
Table of Contents Introduction 11 Marika Lindholm Chapter One: The Kids Are
Alright The Road 15 Teresa Mei Chuc You Were Born to Be Loved 16 Domenica
Ruta from The Light of the World: A Memoir 21 Elizabeth Alexander When One
Door Closes, Another One Opens 24 Terri Linton Notes to My Autistic
Daughter 27 Marianne Peel Forman I Was the Different One 30 Nisa Rashid
Return 35 Dorianne Laux Teaching My Son to Write: An Abecedarian 37 Stacia
Fleegal It's Really Not a Big Deal 39 Jacob Kronenberg An Open Letter to
Our Sperm Donor 42 Robin Silbergleid Dad Day: Death Is a Holiday 44 Lennlee
Keep How to Pray 48 Sage Cohen Butterfly and Sunshine 50 Marika Lindholm
Chapter Two: Lean on Me Finding My Voice, Feeding My Friends 57 Janelle
Hardy For My Sisters 61 Sharisse Kimbro from A Beautiful, Terrible Thing 65
Jen Waite Raising a Boy Without a Man 71 Kathleen Laccinole September 17 76
Anne Lamott Prayer 78 Keetje Kuipers The Godfather 80 Margot Kessler the
lost women 83 Lucille Clifton We Are Loved 84 Amy Rivers XIII 88 Adrienne
Rich Tahlequah 89 Isa Down All the Single Ladies 90 Jennifer Baumgardner
Chapter Three: A Day in the Life When a Car Wreck Collides with Picking Up
the Kids 98 Melissa Stephenson How to Comfort a Small Child 101 Abby Murray
Rules for Being Twenty 105 Ariel Gore Evening Guilt 108 Kristie Robin
Johnson "I'm the woman who hit your daughter with my car" 111 Courtney
Christine Life After the NICU 119 Sarah Netter My Life as a Refugee 124
Faleeha Hassan The Rookie 129 January Gill O'Neil This Is Your Life 131
Fern Capella Crying It Out 136 Robin Silbergleid They Give Awards For That
138 Lee Nash Chapter Four: Good Morning Heartache Why We Stay 141
VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia When He Died 144 Robin Rogers This Lesson My Boy
Already Knows 148 Georgia Pearle from The Light of the World: A Memoir 151
Elizabeth Alexander Then 155 Ruth Stone When Black Lives Matter More than
You Ever Imagined 157 Deborah Pannell In a Quiet Moment 161 Hilary Melton
Heroin Rain 163 Anne Spollen On Home 168 Lisa Fay Coutley What I Will Tell
His Daughter, When She's Old Enough to Ask 170 Meg Day Grey Street 171
Angela Ricketts Chapter Five: A Change Is Gonna Come Now That I Am Forever
with Child 178 Audre Lorde Coming Out Pregnant! 180 Staceyann Chin The
Story, For Now 187 Janlori Goldman Myths of Botany and Motherhood 191 Isa
Down Gravity 195 Kim Addonizio The Nervous Hospital 196 Mary Karr What
Remains 202 Jaimie Seaton It Will Look Like a Sunset 207 Kelly Sundberg
Cicadas 221 Rachel Jamison Webster My Books on Divorce 224 Amy Poehler
Today, I Am Mostly Crying 230 Claire Gillespie Chapter Six: Isn't It
Romantic Size Queen 234 Evie Peck All Manner of Obscene Things 239 Kim
Addonizio Origami Wishes 241 Akesha Baron How My Daughter Taught Me to
Trust Again 244 Rachel Sarah Personals 248 Muriel Johnson Kaboom 249 Susan
Goldberg I Don't Want Your Husband 256 P. Charlotte Lindsey How to Love 259
January Gill O'Neil You Can't "Undo" This One 261 Jessica Bern I Ask the
Impossible 265 Ana Castillo Chapter Seven: Here Comes the Sun Yeah, but . .
. 268 Cheryl Dumesnil My Birth, My Way 276 Cate Morrissey How I Came to Me
279 Malaika King Albrecht Teacher and Teammate 282 Sarah Kowalski The Sky
Is Everywhere 288 Nancy Sharp Divorce Cliché 290 Shannon Lell Sunday 292
January Gill O'Neil Why I Don't Grieve for My Daughter at College 294
Ylonda Gault Deconstructing Kanji 298 Mika Yamamoto After He Left 302
Jeanie Tomasko I'd Loved Before, But Never Like This 304 asha bandele
Contributors 307 Permissions & Acknowledgments 331 ¿
Alright The Road 15 Teresa Mei Chuc You Were Born to Be Loved 16 Domenica
Ruta from The Light of the World: A Memoir 21 Elizabeth Alexander When One
Door Closes, Another One Opens 24 Terri Linton Notes to My Autistic
Daughter 27 Marianne Peel Forman I Was the Different One 30 Nisa Rashid
Return 35 Dorianne Laux Teaching My Son to Write: An Abecedarian 37 Stacia
Fleegal It's Really Not a Big Deal 39 Jacob Kronenberg An Open Letter to
Our Sperm Donor 42 Robin Silbergleid Dad Day: Death Is a Holiday 44 Lennlee
Keep How to Pray 48 Sage Cohen Butterfly and Sunshine 50 Marika Lindholm
Chapter Two: Lean on Me Finding My Voice, Feeding My Friends 57 Janelle
Hardy For My Sisters 61 Sharisse Kimbro from A Beautiful, Terrible Thing 65
Jen Waite Raising a Boy Without a Man 71 Kathleen Laccinole September 17 76
Anne Lamott Prayer 78 Keetje Kuipers The Godfather 80 Margot Kessler the
lost women 83 Lucille Clifton We Are Loved 84 Amy Rivers XIII 88 Adrienne
Rich Tahlequah 89 Isa Down All the Single Ladies 90 Jennifer Baumgardner
Chapter Three: A Day in the Life When a Car Wreck Collides with Picking Up
the Kids 98 Melissa Stephenson How to Comfort a Small Child 101 Abby Murray
Rules for Being Twenty 105 Ariel Gore Evening Guilt 108 Kristie Robin
Johnson "I'm the woman who hit your daughter with my car" 111 Courtney
Christine Life After the NICU 119 Sarah Netter My Life as a Refugee 124
Faleeha Hassan The Rookie 129 January Gill O'Neil This Is Your Life 131
Fern Capella Crying It Out 136 Robin Silbergleid They Give Awards For That
138 Lee Nash Chapter Four: Good Morning Heartache Why We Stay 141
VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia When He Died 144 Robin Rogers This Lesson My Boy
Already Knows 148 Georgia Pearle from The Light of the World: A Memoir 151
Elizabeth Alexander Then 155 Ruth Stone When Black Lives Matter More than
You Ever Imagined 157 Deborah Pannell In a Quiet Moment 161 Hilary Melton
Heroin Rain 163 Anne Spollen On Home 168 Lisa Fay Coutley What I Will Tell
His Daughter, When She's Old Enough to Ask 170 Meg Day Grey Street 171
Angela Ricketts Chapter Five: A Change Is Gonna Come Now That I Am Forever
with Child 178 Audre Lorde Coming Out Pregnant! 180 Staceyann Chin The
Story, For Now 187 Janlori Goldman Myths of Botany and Motherhood 191 Isa
Down Gravity 195 Kim Addonizio The Nervous Hospital 196 Mary Karr What
Remains 202 Jaimie Seaton It Will Look Like a Sunset 207 Kelly Sundberg
Cicadas 221 Rachel Jamison Webster My Books on Divorce 224 Amy Poehler
Today, I Am Mostly Crying 230 Claire Gillespie Chapter Six: Isn't It
Romantic Size Queen 234 Evie Peck All Manner of Obscene Things 239 Kim
Addonizio Origami Wishes 241 Akesha Baron How My Daughter Taught Me to
Trust Again 244 Rachel Sarah Personals 248 Muriel Johnson Kaboom 249 Susan
Goldberg I Don't Want Your Husband 256 P. Charlotte Lindsey How to Love 259
January Gill O'Neil You Can't "Undo" This One 261 Jessica Bern I Ask the
Impossible 265 Ana Castillo Chapter Seven: Here Comes the Sun Yeah, but . .
. 268 Cheryl Dumesnil My Birth, My Way 276 Cate Morrissey How I Came to Me
279 Malaika King Albrecht Teacher and Teammate 282 Sarah Kowalski The Sky
Is Everywhere 288 Nancy Sharp Divorce Cliché 290 Shannon Lell Sunday 292
January Gill O'Neil Why I Don't Grieve for My Daughter at College 294
Ylonda Gault Deconstructing Kanji 298 Mika Yamamoto After He Left 302
Jeanie Tomasko I'd Loved Before, But Never Like This 304 asha bandele
Contributors 307 Permissions & Acknowledgments 331 ¿
Table of Contents Introduction 11 Marika Lindholm Chapter One: The Kids Are
Alright The Road 15 Teresa Mei Chuc You Were Born to Be Loved 16 Domenica
Ruta from The Light of the World: A Memoir 21 Elizabeth Alexander When One
Door Closes, Another One Opens 24 Terri Linton Notes to My Autistic
Daughter 27 Marianne Peel Forman I Was the Different One 30 Nisa Rashid
Return 35 Dorianne Laux Teaching My Son to Write: An Abecedarian 37 Stacia
Fleegal It's Really Not a Big Deal 39 Jacob Kronenberg An Open Letter to
Our Sperm Donor 42 Robin Silbergleid Dad Day: Death Is a Holiday 44 Lennlee
Keep How to Pray 48 Sage Cohen Butterfly and Sunshine 50 Marika Lindholm
Chapter Two: Lean on Me Finding My Voice, Feeding My Friends 57 Janelle
Hardy For My Sisters 61 Sharisse Kimbro from A Beautiful, Terrible Thing 65
Jen Waite Raising a Boy Without a Man 71 Kathleen Laccinole September 17 76
Anne Lamott Prayer 78 Keetje Kuipers The Godfather 80 Margot Kessler the
lost women 83 Lucille Clifton We Are Loved 84 Amy Rivers XIII 88 Adrienne
Rich Tahlequah 89 Isa Down All the Single Ladies 90 Jennifer Baumgardner
Chapter Three: A Day in the Life When a Car Wreck Collides with Picking Up
the Kids 98 Melissa Stephenson How to Comfort a Small Child 101 Abby Murray
Rules for Being Twenty 105 Ariel Gore Evening Guilt 108 Kristie Robin
Johnson "I'm the woman who hit your daughter with my car" 111 Courtney
Christine Life After the NICU 119 Sarah Netter My Life as a Refugee 124
Faleeha Hassan The Rookie 129 January Gill O'Neil This Is Your Life 131
Fern Capella Crying It Out 136 Robin Silbergleid They Give Awards For That
138 Lee Nash Chapter Four: Good Morning Heartache Why We Stay 141
VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia When He Died 144 Robin Rogers This Lesson My Boy
Already Knows 148 Georgia Pearle from The Light of the World: A Memoir 151
Elizabeth Alexander Then 155 Ruth Stone When Black Lives Matter More than
You Ever Imagined 157 Deborah Pannell In a Quiet Moment 161 Hilary Melton
Heroin Rain 163 Anne Spollen On Home 168 Lisa Fay Coutley What I Will Tell
His Daughter, When She's Old Enough to Ask 170 Meg Day Grey Street 171
Angela Ricketts Chapter Five: A Change Is Gonna Come Now That I Am Forever
with Child 178 Audre Lorde Coming Out Pregnant! 180 Staceyann Chin The
Story, For Now 187 Janlori Goldman Myths of Botany and Motherhood 191 Isa
Down Gravity 195 Kim Addonizio The Nervous Hospital 196 Mary Karr What
Remains 202 Jaimie Seaton It Will Look Like a Sunset 207 Kelly Sundberg
Cicadas 221 Rachel Jamison Webster My Books on Divorce 224 Amy Poehler
Today, I Am Mostly Crying 230 Claire Gillespie Chapter Six: Isn't It
Romantic Size Queen 234 Evie Peck All Manner of Obscene Things 239 Kim
Addonizio Origami Wishes 241 Akesha Baron How My Daughter Taught Me to
Trust Again 244 Rachel Sarah Personals 248 Muriel Johnson Kaboom 249 Susan
Goldberg I Don't Want Your Husband 256 P. Charlotte Lindsey How to Love 259
January Gill O'Neil You Can't "Undo" This One 261 Jessica Bern I Ask the
Impossible 265 Ana Castillo Chapter Seven: Here Comes the Sun Yeah, but . .
. 268 Cheryl Dumesnil My Birth, My Way 276 Cate Morrissey How I Came to Me
279 Malaika King Albrecht Teacher and Teammate 282 Sarah Kowalski The Sky
Is Everywhere 288 Nancy Sharp Divorce Cliché 290 Shannon Lell Sunday 292
January Gill O'Neil Why I Don't Grieve for My Daughter at College 294
Ylonda Gault Deconstructing Kanji 298 Mika Yamamoto After He Left 302
Jeanie Tomasko I'd Loved Before, But Never Like This 304 asha bandele
Contributors 307 Permissions & Acknowledgments 331 ¿
Alright The Road 15 Teresa Mei Chuc You Were Born to Be Loved 16 Domenica
Ruta from The Light of the World: A Memoir 21 Elizabeth Alexander When One
Door Closes, Another One Opens 24 Terri Linton Notes to My Autistic
Daughter 27 Marianne Peel Forman I Was the Different One 30 Nisa Rashid
Return 35 Dorianne Laux Teaching My Son to Write: An Abecedarian 37 Stacia
Fleegal It's Really Not a Big Deal 39 Jacob Kronenberg An Open Letter to
Our Sperm Donor 42 Robin Silbergleid Dad Day: Death Is a Holiday 44 Lennlee
Keep How to Pray 48 Sage Cohen Butterfly and Sunshine 50 Marika Lindholm
Chapter Two: Lean on Me Finding My Voice, Feeding My Friends 57 Janelle
Hardy For My Sisters 61 Sharisse Kimbro from A Beautiful, Terrible Thing 65
Jen Waite Raising a Boy Without a Man 71 Kathleen Laccinole September 17 76
Anne Lamott Prayer 78 Keetje Kuipers The Godfather 80 Margot Kessler the
lost women 83 Lucille Clifton We Are Loved 84 Amy Rivers XIII 88 Adrienne
Rich Tahlequah 89 Isa Down All the Single Ladies 90 Jennifer Baumgardner
Chapter Three: A Day in the Life When a Car Wreck Collides with Picking Up
the Kids 98 Melissa Stephenson How to Comfort a Small Child 101 Abby Murray
Rules for Being Twenty 105 Ariel Gore Evening Guilt 108 Kristie Robin
Johnson "I'm the woman who hit your daughter with my car" 111 Courtney
Christine Life After the NICU 119 Sarah Netter My Life as a Refugee 124
Faleeha Hassan The Rookie 129 January Gill O'Neil This Is Your Life 131
Fern Capella Crying It Out 136 Robin Silbergleid They Give Awards For That
138 Lee Nash Chapter Four: Good Morning Heartache Why We Stay 141
VersAnnette Blackman-Bosia When He Died 144 Robin Rogers This Lesson My Boy
Already Knows 148 Georgia Pearle from The Light of the World: A Memoir 151
Elizabeth Alexander Then 155 Ruth Stone When Black Lives Matter More than
You Ever Imagined 157 Deborah Pannell In a Quiet Moment 161 Hilary Melton
Heroin Rain 163 Anne Spollen On Home 168 Lisa Fay Coutley What I Will Tell
His Daughter, When She's Old Enough to Ask 170 Meg Day Grey Street 171
Angela Ricketts Chapter Five: A Change Is Gonna Come Now That I Am Forever
with Child 178 Audre Lorde Coming Out Pregnant! 180 Staceyann Chin The
Story, For Now 187 Janlori Goldman Myths of Botany and Motherhood 191 Isa
Down Gravity 195 Kim Addonizio The Nervous Hospital 196 Mary Karr What
Remains 202 Jaimie Seaton It Will Look Like a Sunset 207 Kelly Sundberg
Cicadas 221 Rachel Jamison Webster My Books on Divorce 224 Amy Poehler
Today, I Am Mostly Crying 230 Claire Gillespie Chapter Six: Isn't It
Romantic Size Queen 234 Evie Peck All Manner of Obscene Things 239 Kim
Addonizio Origami Wishes 241 Akesha Baron How My Daughter Taught Me to
Trust Again 244 Rachel Sarah Personals 248 Muriel Johnson Kaboom 249 Susan
Goldberg I Don't Want Your Husband 256 P. Charlotte Lindsey How to Love 259
January Gill O'Neil You Can't "Undo" This One 261 Jessica Bern I Ask the
Impossible 265 Ana Castillo Chapter Seven: Here Comes the Sun Yeah, but . .
. 268 Cheryl Dumesnil My Birth, My Way 276 Cate Morrissey How I Came to Me
279 Malaika King Albrecht Teacher and Teammate 282 Sarah Kowalski The Sky
Is Everywhere 288 Nancy Sharp Divorce Cliché 290 Shannon Lell Sunday 292
January Gill O'Neil Why I Don't Grieve for My Daughter at College 294
Ylonda Gault Deconstructing Kanji 298 Mika Yamamoto After He Left 302
Jeanie Tomasko I'd Loved Before, But Never Like This 304 asha bandele
Contributors 307 Permissions & Acknowledgments 331 ¿