Laurel Briley’s Reviews > What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence > Status Update

“There is a gaping hole for perhaps all of us, where our mother does not match up with ‘mother’ as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give to us.”

“My mother is hard to know. Or rather, I know her and I don’t know her at the same time.”