'The Abandoners'

What happens if we see motherhood not as a portrait, but as a landscape?

I am beatific to have written my first non-academic book review, which of course disrespects genres by borrowing from the personal essay—titled “A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave”—about Begoña Gómez Urzaiz’s important The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters.

Thank you kindly, Literary Hub, for hosting my most tender of words and for letting me confess my commitment to leopard print as an aspirational aesthetic.