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The Names
by Florence Knapp
Can a name change the course of a life?
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a respected doctor yet also a terrifying and controlling presence at home, insists their son be named after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates…
Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate versions of Cora's and her son's lives, each shaped by the name she chooses for him. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.
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Finding Grace
by Loretta Rothschild
A twisting, gripping novel wrapped around a love story from an electric new voice in women’s fiction.
Honor seems to have everything: a daughter she adores, a husband she loves (even if he works one hundred hours a week). But her longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it―until a shocking event changes their lives forever. As the consequences of a fateful choice unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intertwined. When old love clashes with new, who will be left standing? And what happens when secrets resurface?
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Kakigori Summer
by Emily Itami
A wry and tender novel about three very different sisters reunited in adulthood for one short summer.
Rei, Kiki, and Ai are three sisters divided by distance and circumstance. Ambitious Rei works in finance in London; Kik works in a retirement home in Tokyo andi is the single mother of a young son; and Ai, the youngest, is a Japanese music idol. Having lost both parents, the sisters rely on each other as family even while living far apart. Thus, when Ai is embroiled in a scandal, Rei and Kiki pause their own lives to rescue their baby sister. Over the course of a summer spent in their childhood home, the sisters reunite with their sharp-edged grandmother, care for Kiki’s irrepressible son, and silently worry about Ai, all while carefully not talking about the circumstances of their mother’s death fifteen years earlier. But silence between sisters can only last for so long…
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The Language of the Birds
by K. A. Merson
A brilliant, eccentric teenager must solve a series of puzzles left behind by her dead father in this debut work.
When seventeen-year-old Arizona’s mother goes missing on a family trip, she initially tells herself not to worry. But when she finds her family’s Airstream ransacked—and an ominous note on the counter–she realizes her mother has been kidnapped. Somehow, the kidnappers believe Arizona’s long-dead father took a secret to his grave: one Arizona must uncover in order to get her mother back safely.
Luckily, Arizona is no normal teenager: like her father, she’s inordinately fond of puzzles, codes, and riddles. With her dog Mojo at her side, Arizona sets off in the Airstream to uncover the truth and pursue her mother’s return on her own terms.
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The Girls Who Grew Big
by Leila Mottley
An astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a group of teenage mothers in a small Florida panhandle town.
Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who brings her newborn to high school, determined to graduate despite the odds; Simone, mother of four-year-old twins, who weighs her options when she finds herself pregnant again; and the rest of the Girls, a group of outcast young moms who raise their growing brood in the back of Simone’s red truck. The town thinks the Girls have lost their way, but really they are finding it: looking for love and connection while navigating both the miracle of motherhood and the paradox of girlhood.
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Sleep
by Honor Jones
A newly divorced young mother is forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the house where she was raised.
Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life is not so simple. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes.
Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents’ bed, her young daughters searching for her in a game of hide and seek. She’s newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, but some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with what it means to keep a child safe and how much of our lives are our own.
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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
by Molly Jong-Fast
A brutally funny mother-daughter memoir that asks the question: How can you lose something you never had?
Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of Erica Jong, author of the feminist autobiographical novel Fear of Flying. A sensational exploration of female sexual desire, the book catapulted Erica into a world of fame in the early 1970s. Molly grew up with her mother everywhere – on television, in the crossword puzzle, in the newspaper. But rarely at home.
As an adult, Molly witnesses her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and realizes that she is going to lose this remarkable woman. It is a story of love, of loss, of confusion and of deep grief. How to Lose Your Mother takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic and leaves us with a better understanding of our own precious relationships.
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How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way: A Parent's Guide to Building Creativity, Confidence, and Independence
by DK Publishing
An international bestseller, this guide adapts Montessori teachings for easy use at home.
Packed with Montessori-based preschool activities and educational games that build confidence and independence through active learning, this authoritative illustrated guide helps raise self-reliant and creative children. Celebrate physical and intellectual milestones from birth to age six with activity checklists, and encourage development through proven child-centered teaching methods. This edition has been updated to include the latest child development research, advice about screen time in the digital age and a contemporary approach to cultural education.
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Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting in Community, Raising Independent Kids, and Not Losing Your Mind
by Marina Lopes
Acclaimed journalist Marina Lopes travels the world to learn how diverse cultures embrace communal parenting and brings home practical strategies for American parents to stop doing it all.
Parenting in America is notoriously challenging: no federally supported parental leave, no mental health support, a crushing combination of workplace pressure and aspirational parental perfection. But what if there was a better way?
The truth is that parenting looks wildly different across nations. In Please Yell at My Kids, journalist Marina Lopes travels the globe, learning from parents in Singapore, Brazil, Mozambique, Malaysia, Sweden, China, and more. At the heart of many global approaches to parenting lies one simple and not-so-simple element: community. Globally, parenthood is more often a team sport played in the center of a community than a dual mission between two parents. Please Yell at My Kids empowers parents to create a supportive community of care, rediscover joy in parenting, and raise resilient, independent children—without having to go it alone.
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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this thought-provoking work exploring the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history.
Traditional African/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase “intersectionality” to explain the unique position of Black women in America. In Misbehaving at the Crossroads, Jeffers charts voyages of Black girlhood to womanhood and the currents buffeting these journeys, including the difficulties of racially gendered oppression, the challenges of documenting Black women’s ancestry, the adultification of Black girls, resistance to White supremacy and patriarchy, and more. As Jeffers shows with empathy and wisdom, naming difficult historical truths represents both Blues and transcendence, a crossroads that speaks.
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The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour
by James Patterson
An advice book that actually works—and that dads will actually read!
In this nonfiction work from acclaimed author James Patterson, The #1 Dad Book relates the wisdom of experts, fellow dads, and experts who are also dads. From the wisdom of others and research into parenting, Patterson has generated specific steps to becoming a better dad:
Start with a hug.
Talk to them before they can speak. Then talk about everything.
Read to your kids. Then let them read to you.
Tell your kids your story.
Help them discover who they are.
Have your kids’ backs. One day, they’ll have yours.
Every day, just show up.
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
by Martha S. Jones
A powerful memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America.
A child of the civil rights era, Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But in Jones’s first semester of college, a Black Studies classmate–suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair–confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of “Who do you think you are?”
Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her own family’s past for answers, only to find a story that archives alone can’t tell, a story of race in America that takes us beyond slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights. Color and race are not the same, and through her family’s story, Jones discovers the uneven, unpredictable relationship between the two.
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