Letters of Note: Mothers

This book, by bestselling author Shaun Usher, collects exceptional missives about motherhood from various writers. It celebrates the joy, grief, humor, frustration, wisdom, and sacrifice that motherhood brings to both parents and children.

It features stories like that of a young Egyptian girl mourning her mother’s death in the fourth century AD, Melissa Rivers lovingly chiding her mother, Joan, for treating their home like a hotel and taking her son to see Last Tango in Paris, Anne Sexton advising her daughter to live life to the hilt and be her own woman, Caitlin Moran explaining that some boys are as evil as vampires, and you must drive stakes through their hearts, journalist Hannah Woodhead writing a letter to her mother inspired by the film Ladybird, and Martin Luther King Jr. expressing his gratitude for his “best mother in the world” while at seminary.

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