Read Elissaโs essay on quarantining for eleven weeks with the subject of MOTHERLAND
2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Memoir
2020 Maine Literary Award Finalist, Memoir
2020 Connecticut Book Award Finalist, Memoir
Gorgeous ... A complicated work of lyrically-wrought prose with a quiet surprise on ever page.
Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.
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