New Books: Masks, Chains, and Myths: Analyzing Motherhood

My new book review is up at Literary Mama:

"When I told my parents I was expecting their first grandchild, they leapt up from the table to congratulate me with a kind of unconditional affirmation one rarely receives after the spelling bee years. While I was delighted that they were happy for me, I was also a bit nonplussed; after all, getting pregnant was one of the easier things I'd done lately. I'd been married two years at the time, had finished my master's in English and was well on the way to my PhD. Surely those accomplishments had been just as important? Certainly, they were more difficult."

Read the rest here: New Books: Masks, Chains, and Myths: Analyzing Motherhood