Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by award-winning essayist Nicole Graev Lipson (Chronicle Prism) untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in this intimate and riveting debut memoir, weaving in literary references from Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” to Shakespeare’s gender-bending heroine Rosalind together with her personal experiences.