Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South

by Lee Smith, Samia Serageldin, Allyson Johnson

Book Overview

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146965167X
• ISBN13: 9781469651675
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"