Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

A review of Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.

The Best of Mothers

The Best of Mothers

The overturning of Roe Vs Wade, for an Indian woman looking to the West as a model for women’s rights, this was my honest view.

Booked to Heaven

Booked to Heaven

I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.

Please

Please

please do not bleed,
not right now.

Hug me in my dream

Hug me in my dream

In my memory, 
Your lips mother never touched my dimpled face

From this side of truth

From this side of truth

From this side of truth
Lies fall twisted at the gate

Taking the Long Way Home

Taking the Long Way Home

Taking the Long Way Home chronicles her mother’s life and long fall into dementia.

Where we will meet

Where we will meet

Missing loved ones