![]() And in her powerful titular story, we see Davies struggling with the weight of knowing that her son is deeply troubled. ![]() In stories that cut to the quick, we see Davies grow from a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years to a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene to an adrift twenty-something who summons inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger to a woman dealing with difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression. But even if she has never fit in with other moms, she has raised three children with her own particular brand of fierce, unflagging love. A six-foot-tall divorcee, she isn’t chatty, couldn’t care less about anyone’s potty training progress, doesn’t care to share her own children’s milestones with people who don’t love them. Some women are born mothers, some achieve motherhood, others have motherhood thrust upon them. A six-foot-tall divorcee, she isn’t chatty, couldn’t care less about anyone’s potty training progress, doesn’t care to sha Discovered by Michael Ondaatje, Davies’ dazzling literary memoir has shades of Mary Karr, Anne Lamott, and Jenny Lawson. ![]() Discovered by Michael Ondaatje, Davies’ dazzling literary memoir has shades of Mary Karr, Anne Lamott, and Jenny Lawson.
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