Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps
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- ISBN13: 9781594202612
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“What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it brings you, but every bit of life you’ve lived before that moment equips you to live through it. That’s what I would give to you.” -Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons, in conversation with her daughter, Danyealah Green-Lemons
In Mom, Dave Isay-StoryCorps’s founder and the editor of the project’s bestselling collection, Listening Is an Act of Like-presents a celebration of American mothers. Featuring StoryCorps’s most revelatory tales on the theme, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.
Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In tales that take us from the woods of New Hampshire to urban Detroit and beyond, we meet mothers and children from all walks of life-an immigrant mother instilling in her children the importance of education, adult children caring for an elderly parent, a woman remembering the sound of her mother’s laugh, and mothers and children of all ages learning to grow into new roles over time. Visiting families in moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph, we learn new truths about that most primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between mother and child.
With this vital contribution to the American storybook, StoryCorps has made a tribute to mothers that honors the wealth of our national experience. An appreciation of the wisdom and generosity passed between mothers and children, this generation to the next, Mom offers powerful lessons in the meaning of family tree and the size of the human heart.
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A special book which shares the wisdom, courage, and life experiences between mothers and their children. Tales in this book are persons which mothers can truly tell to, gain insight, feel honored by, and find comfort in the journeys we all share as moms.
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I feel really connected to the experiences open in this book. A portrait of what it means to be a mother –the excellent and the terrible, the pleased and the sad, the glorious and the mundane– emerges through the pages of transcribed interviews. Each one is poignant, and I’m certainly giving a copy to my mom for Mother’s Day.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
StoryCorps is a fabulous notion. Ordinary people interview additional ordinary people. Over the past seven years thousands of us have told our tales for the StoryCorps project. Every interview is recorded for posterity. One copy goes to the participants. The additional copy will be preserved as part of our oral history. David Isay, the founder of StoryCorps had a brilliant notion and it just keeps growing.
We all have tales to tell. This latest collection comes out just in time for Mother’s Day. These are excerpts from interviews about mothers. These tales about moms will touch your heart. Some are told by moms. Some are told by spouses, others by children. Every tale is unique.
As Isay closes this collection he talks about the time he interviewed his own mother. Going into it he assumed he knew all about her, that there would not be any new revelations. Boy, was he incorrect. Something about the StoryCorps Project brings out the best in participants. They remember. They reflect. They give honor. They show their grit in the face of life’s obstacles. These tales are magical. Isay’s mom told tales that blew him away. He was amazed.
Prepare to be delighted and amazed by this fabulous, tender collection of tales about MOM. You gotta like it~ya gotta like your mom. Pleased Mother’s Day.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5