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Review of Marie Conlan's "Say Mother Say Hand”: An Anti-Memoir Plumbing Memory to its Depths
Review of Marie Conlan's "Say Mother Say Hand”: An Anti-Memoir Plumbing Memory to its Depths

Book Review

“Say Mother, Say Hand, is not quite an anti-memoir, but it’s not a traditional memoir, either. It is a visually alive, painful deconstructed recollection of Conlan’s life and the lives of her mother and grandmother… it explores her legacy of deeply flawed women who were, themselves, learning how to survive in a world that often seemed out to punish them.” Sophie Allen and Sarah Feng review Marie Conlan’s Say Mother, Say Hand (Half-Mystic Press, 2020).

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Review of Sammie Downing's "The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs”: A Redefinition of the Fairytale
Review of Sammie Downing's "The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs”: A Redefinition of the Fairytale

Book Review

“Downing has constructed a world in which the role we occupy in other people’s minds and hearts is not only predetermined but actively stifling and painful.” Sophie Allen and Sarah Feng review Sammie Downing’s The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs (Half-Mystic Press, 2019).

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Book ReviewSarah Fengsammie downing, the family that carried their house on their back, family, femininity, fantasy, fairytale, girlhood