All My Mother's Lovers

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Her essays, reviews, and other writings have been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Elle among others. It might happen over years or in a singular moment, but somehow, by God, you’re forced to realize that your parents are people, too. I felt like I was reading about caricatures, not real people, not characters that I could relate to and sympathize with.

Most of us are raised sheltered from the complexities of who our parents really are, believing them to be all knowing and ever wise. Maggie starts out as an immature and confused young woman who despite believing that she has a strong grip on life, has not accepted herself and blames her mother for her own issues.

Maggie and her mother, Iris, weren’t close, especially since Maggie came out, but she never thought they would run out of time to figure each other out. This book pissed me off from start to finish and I am now on the hunt for something better to read to cleanse the palate so I don't have to end 2020 on such a sour note. This is nothing like Evelyn Hugo and if you are considering picking this book up because you enjoyed that book, don't. This novel follows Maggie who embarks upon a physical and spiritual road trip upon the passing of her mum after discovering some letters that her mum requested be sent. She decides, to run from her family, grief, and Shiva duties to personally deliver the letters to the men.

Daniel Fraser looks at the most recent translation of Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs” as a work about motherhood, illness, and language. She lives a self-medicated life as a put upon emotional voyeur whose level of sarcasm is only matched by her ability to bully her family and friends any time she is strained. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover the truth about Iris—who made no secret of her discomfort with her daughter's sexuality—Maggie embarks on a road trip, determined to hand-deliver the letters and find out what these men meant to her mother.i found it a bit slow in the beginning, but near the end i was definitely more compelled and i found myself immersed in the story.

Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause—despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss—until, that is, Lucia came into her life.The whole cast of characters - Maggie's spoiled, selfish brother Ariel, her pushover dad, her largely absent girlfriend. maggie was an excellent main character, i sympathized with her greatly and she was very relatable and human, i truly felt all of her feelings and her confusion and pain and grief with her mother and everything else in her life. Unfolding over the course of nine days, and written with enormous heart, All My Mother's Lovers is a meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties, grief, and generational divides, as well as a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity. Now in her late twenties, Maggie is finally in something resembling a serious relationship, wondering if some of whatever shaped her parents’ decades-long love story might exist after all. A unique meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties and grief, and a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity, A ll My Mother’s Lovers challenges us to question the nature of fulfilling relationships.