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Many Faces of Mom May 2022
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You got anything stronger? : stories
by Gabrielle Union
The best-selling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine? is back with You Got Anything Stronger?, a deeper, yet still humorous, conversation
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The peculiar fate of Holly Banks : a novel
by Julie Valerie
A sequel to Holly Banks Full of Angst finds a family woman and aspiring filmmaker struggling to keep up with the impossible standards of her picture-perfect community before her dog’s discovery of an old artifact compromises her prospects. Original.
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Mother Country by Jacinda TownsendSaddled with personal troubles, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. In Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life.
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The upstairs house : a novel
by Julia Fine
Recovering from a difficult childbirth, a woman caring for her newborn alone while her husband travels for work suffers a psychological unraveling that causes her to see the ghost of famed children’s book author, Margaret Wise Brown. 30,000 first printing.
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The spectacular : a novel
by Zoe Whittall
In 1997, three generations of women—Missy, a cellist in an indie rock band; her mother Carola, who is just surfacing from a sex scandal; and her grandmother, Ruth—each struggle to build an authentic life as they try to find a way to understand one another again.
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The seven day switch : a novel
by Kelly Harms
A Pinterest stay-at-home supermom of other mothers’ nightmares and her workaholic, career-obsessed neighbor, after a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, wake up in each other’s bodies, flipping everything they thought they knew about each other upside down.
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Happy & you know it
by Laura Hankin
Accepting a job as a playgroup musician for Park Avenue infants after her band rises to stardom without her, Claire is drawn into the glamorous world of wealthy clients who hide secrets and betrayals beneath competitive social-media stardom.
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Fault lines : a novel
by Emily Itami
A bored, frustrated Japanese housewife begins living two lives when she meets a successful restaurateur and rediscovers the freedom and the electric pulse of her beloved Tokyo and realizes that she has to make a choice. 100,000 first printing.
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I love you but I've chosen darkness
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Leaving for a speaking engagement, a writer and new mother leaves behind her domestic duties and descends into the depths of her past in the Mojave desert, meeting ghosts at every turn and pondering her way forward.
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The nine lives of Rose Napolitano
by Donna Freitas
A woman who never wanted to be a mother reconnects with her estranged husband in the wake of unexpected news and is challenged to reevaluate herself in an unanticipated role. A first adult novel by the author of Consent.
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Wayward
by 1966- Spiotta, Dana
In 2016, 52-year-old Samantha Raymond, as her life begins to unravel, flees her suburban existence — and her family — as she struggles with how to be a wife, a mother and a daughter in a country that is coming apart at the seams.
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Nightbitch : a novel
by Rachel Yoder
An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem.
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The push : a novel
by 1982- Audrain, Ashley
A devoted mother with a painful past gradually realizes that something is very wrong with her daughter, a fear that is complicated by her husband's dismissive views and the birth of a healthy son
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Good company : a novel
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
In this bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us, Flora Mancini finds everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend upended when she makes a startling discovery. 500,000 first printing.
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