Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

USA Today Bestseller “Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written.” —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma “This is—for real—a masterwork, one I will return to over and over." —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives. What does it take to escape the plo