Heidi Reimer Examines Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Redemption

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It's always a pleasure for us to talk to a debut author and we have a good one this week in Heidi Reimer. Her novel, The Mother Act, is the story of mothers and daughters and the heap of complexities that come in those relationships. How do we know we are going to be a good mom? Once we have a child are we ALWAYS a mother first? This book asks these questions and challenges the reader to question the concepts of motherhood, empathy and family.

Books mentioned in this week’s episode:

The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Maybe Baby: 28 Writers Tell the Truth About Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and How They Made the Biggest Decision of Their Lives by Lori Leibovich
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

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