Something Good In 2025: A Motherhood Book Avalanche
The golden age of motherhood discourse blazes on!
Apropos of nothing at all, from the Cambridge Dictionary: “Tsundoku is the Japanese word for the stack of books you've purchased but haven't yet read.”
Sarah & I have actually read some of these, but not all (yet) and while we work our way through our TBR piles, we wanted to get them on your radar! A few came out recently, and a few others are coming in early 2025. A windfall!
We’re really excited to dig into:
Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage by Jessie Harrold
The Motherload by Sarah Hoover
Thriving Postpartum: Embracing The Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena by Pānquetzani
The Good Mother Myth by Nancy Reddy
Mother/Animal by Helen Jukes
The Power Pause by Neha Ruch
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case (a Neko Case memoir!)
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson
And it’s not just books! Apparently a postpartum thriller directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Jennifer Lawrence based on the book Die, My Love is coming in 2025 (a reddit thread of delightful movie nerds claims it will premiere at Cannes in May, but grain of salt because reddit). Anyway, guess we need to read that book, too.