Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

ISBN: 1594202613

Author: Isay, Dave

Condition: New

"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 youve lived before that moment equips you to live through it. Thats what I would give to you." -Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons, in conversation with her daughter, Danyealah Green-LemonsIn Mom, Dave Isay-StoryCorpss founder and the editor of the projects bestselling collection, Listening Is an Act of Love-presents a celebration of American mothers. Featuring StoryCorpss most revelatory stories on the subject, 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 stories 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 mothers 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 created 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 and the expansiveness of the human heart.Watch a Video