Best books you've read that address friendship or motherhood

[Anonymous]

My brilliant friend - Elena Ferrante.

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Back When We Were Grown Ups by Anne Tyler

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Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. I happened to pick it up off the "new books" shelf at the library before I even thought I might have children, and it still moved me to my core. Here's a blurb that I totally agree with:

"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles

[Anonymous]

Anne of Green Gables

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Summer Sisters- Judy Bloom.

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Anonymous wrote:Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck. I happened to pick it up off the "new books" shelf at the library before I even thought I might have children, and it still moved me to my core. Here's a blurb that I totally agree with:

"I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. The thing is, I thought it was about a lady who had a baby with Down Syndrome. This is like saying ANNA KARENINA is a book about a lady who commits suicide. In fact, this book is about matters so important and yet so totally way-out that I would accept no one but a comic genius with seven years at Harvard under her belt telling me about them. That's Martha Beck: funny, companionable, razor-sharp, down-to-earth, and onto the Big Secrets of Life Itself. Anyone considering having a child should have to read this book. It has changed some of my thinking about pregnancy and about children with disabilities, and I don't think it's too much to say it could change my life."
--Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love and The Lunchbox Chronicles

This was so good. Had forgotten about it.

[Anonymous]

I read a book a couple years ago about a young woman who found out her mom had been a terrorist before she became a mom. Can't recall the name of it at the moment.

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Anonymous wrote:Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. Absolutely beautiful story of the changing friendships btw 2 couples over a lifetime.

My favorite novel ever. I read it at 20 and read it again every decade or so and get something new out of it. Gorgeous, quiet book.

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The Friendship Fix by Andrea Bonior. It is not fiction, she is a therapist.

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I just listened to:
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by jessi Klein.

Some parts were laugh out loud funny and some parts were slow but it was all so relatable.

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I miss you when I blink

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Anonymous wrote:Summer Sisters- Judy Bloom.

Yes....LOVE this one. I’m in my late 30s and I read it the first time when I was 19 and have re read it probably 10 times since then. So good.

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Anonymous wrote:I read a book a couple years ago about a young woman who found out her mom had been a terrorist before she became a mom. Can't recall the name of it at the moment.

I remember what the book was called now. It was called "Pieces of Her".

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After Birth - Elisa Albert

https://offtheshelf.com/2016/04/12-novels-that-celebrate-the-joys-and-challenges-of-motherhood/

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Anne Lamott has 2 books - Operating Instructions (on motherhood) and Some Assembly Required (when her grandson was born).