What My Mother And I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence

  • Author: Roger Casey
  • Narrator: Michele Filgate
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 7:14:02
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Synopsis

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and The Week*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.

In the bestselling tradition of The Bitch in the House, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About is an anthology about the powerful and sometimes painful things that we can’t discuss with the person who is supposed to know us and love us the most.

In the early 2000s, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to write about: the fracture this caused in her relationship with her mother. When her essay, “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About,” was published by Longreads in October of 2017, it went on to become one of the most popular Longreads exclusives of the year, and was shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, Lidia Yuknavitch, and many other writers, some of whom had their own individual codes of silence to be broken.

The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers an intimate, therapeutic, and universally resonant look at our relationships with our mothers. As Filgate poignantly writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.”

Contributors:
Cathi Hanauer
Melissa Febos
Alexander Chee
Dylan Landis
Bernice L. McFadden
Julianna Baggott
Lynn Steger Strong
Kiese Laymon
Carmen Maria Machado
André Aciman
Sari Botton
Nayomi Munaweera
Brandon Taylor
Leslie Jamison

Chapters

  • 001 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Title

    Duration: 01min
  • 002 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Introduction

    Duration: 09min
  • 003 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout

    Duration: 16min
  • 004 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout MyMothersGateKeeper

    Duration: 39min
  • 005 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Thesmophoria

    Duration: 37min
  • 006 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Xanadu

    Duration: 24min
  • 007 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout 16MinettaLane

    Duration: 44min
  • 008 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Fifteen

    Duration: 16min
  • 009 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout NothingLeftUnsaid

    Duration: 15min
  • 010 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout TheSameStoryAboutMyMom

    Duration: 15min
  • 011 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout WhileTheseThingsFeelAmericanToMe

    Duration: 11min
  • 012 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout MotherTongue

    Duration: 18min
  • 013 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout AreYouListening

    Duration: 21min
  • 014 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout BrotherCanYouSpareSomeChange

    Duration: 19min
  • 015 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout HerBodyMyBody

    Duration: 44min
  • 016 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout AllAboutMyMother

    Duration: 27min
  • 017 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout IMetFearOnTheHill

    Duration: 58min
  • 018 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Acknowledgements

    Duration: 02min
  • 019 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout AboutTheAuthors

    Duration: 09min
  • 020 WhatMyMotherAndIDontTalkAbout Credits

    Duration: 01min