Book 2022
Spilt Milk
4.01 2 readers shelved it
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Publishing
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Authors, biography
- Motherhood
- Jews, united states, biography
- Jewish authors
- Women, conduct of life
- American Authors
- American Women authors
- Biography
An intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son's cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. What role does a mother play, she asks, in raising thoughtful, generous children? Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? And how do the stories we tell inform who we become?