The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne Brontë: This classic novel written by the lesser-known Brontë hinges upon the mystery of a beautiful, but reclusive, young widow who moves into the neighborhood with her young son.Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Gendersby Jennifer Finney Boylan: The memoir of a transgender woman transitioning from a father to a mother and the time in between.Awayby Amy Bloom: An epic novel following Lillian Leyb who journeys from New York City to Alaska to Siberia in search of the daughter she was separated from in a Russian pogrom.Are You My Mother?by Alison Bechdel: A graphic memoir exploring the relationship between the artist and her complicated, creative mother.I’m the Vampire, That’s Whyby Michele Bardsley: This humorous paranormal romance follows single mother as she juggles taking care of her two children with transforming into a vampire.Daughterby Asha Bandele: A mother reminisces over her past while keeping vigil at the hospital bed of her black daughter who’s been shot by a white police officer.Those Bones Are Not My Childby Toni Cade Bambara: Zala Spencer, a single mother, desperately searches for her missing son against the backdrop of the Atlanta Child Murders, when more than forty black children were kidnapped, assaulted, and killed in the span of two years.
Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A multi-perspective novel set against the backdrop of Biafra and the Nigerian Civil War during the late 1960s.It’s the perfect time to dive into a books about mothers that feature one of the difficult, dynamic, nuanced mothers from this list. Instead, they are something better they are human. Not every mother on this list is a Marmee or a Ma Ingalls, which is to say they are not all perfect (and we’ve even got another 100 books about complicated mothers to prove it). Picture books seek to assure both parent and child about the unconditional nature of a mother’s love. Suspense fiction put mothers or sometimes the children they love in danger. Memoirs attempt to tell some difficult truths. Romance novels promise mothers happy endings. Depending on the genre, books about mothers and their stories vary wildly too. They vary by sexual orientation and gender identity. They vary by race, nationality, and religion.
Just like in life, mothers in literature vary in every way imaginable.
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