What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

the long version

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