All My Mother's Lovers

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All My Mother's Lovers

All My Mother's Lovers

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Do you ever finish a book and you love so many things about it, but when it comes to putting your thoughts into coherent sentences you come up short? Well I knew I wasn't reading THE GREAT GATSBY but I still expected more of a send-off than wet panties. Told over the course of a funeral and shiva, and written with enormous wit and warmth, All My Mother's Lovers is a unique meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties and grief, and a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity, challenging us to question the nature of fulfilling relationships. Please don't misunderstand this as me not liking the book, but I hope provide insight into why I rated this down a little.

Maggie's journey to meet the lovers begins): "So maybe they’re ax murderers, she thinks idly, and wonders, as she pulls into a gas station, whether ax murders are even a thing anymore. When Iris suddenly dies, Maggie grapples with past interactions they both had and tries to understand the woman she learns more and more about. this is a real quote):"He had radical politics, and while she challenged him occasionally on them, she never won an argument.We also see her with the various “lovers” that the book’s title hints at, the men Maggie didn’t know existed until she saw their names scrawled across envelopes in her mother’s handwriting. It dawns on Maggie that whatever else her mother was…Iris was strong, and her strength felt like a kind of protection between Maggie and the world, even long after moving out and having her own life. She turns every meeting into a Me moment instead of an opportunity to learn more about the mother she recently lost. Now in her late twenties, Maggie is finally in something resembling a serious relationship, wondering if some of whatever shaped her parents' decades-long love story might exist after all.

It allows the author to tell the mother's story too, while the daughter examines her own relationships - her girlfriend, her brother, her old friends - all while she gets to know more about her mother than she ever knew while she was alive.

such an interesting premise that was unnecessarily prolonged by insignificant details and that was further dragged down by uninspiring prose. try reading this out loud):"Years later, Iris would remember the first time Shlomo hurt her being April Fool’s Day, 1977. lucia seemed very sweet and while we didn’t get to know her very well, which seemed like it was kind of the point, she seemed to have a very real and important connection with maggie.

Maggie and Iris, the daughter and mother that sit at this novel’s heart, are both indelible, with a bond that not even death can demolish. This novel follows Maggie who embarks upon a physical and spiritual road trip upon the passing of her mum after discovering some letters that her mum requested be sent. In literature, this position seems to be portrayed as the stereotypical life of many lesbians, so Masad isn't showing anything new or unique along these lines. Overwhelmed by her grief and frustrated with her family, Maggie decides to escape the shiva and hand-deliver her mother’s letters.At the heart of it is an exploration of grief (not good on the soul to read two books on grieving one after the after! Maggie is a member of the “LGBTQIA2S+” community with an awareness of the privilege of being a “native English speaker with a flat accent,” and a name “signaling whiteness” — all of which casts an exciting, fresh, contemporary character, who still unfortunately falls into clichés of plot.

Most of us are raised sheltered from the complexities of who our parents really are, believing them to be all knowing and ever wise.the writing does a great job of portraying emotions and grief, and the progressions of those things as the story goes on. I want to say something about the ultimate centering of queer/ace/poly relationships among older characters, since that was special to read, but I don’t really have much to add on that front other than it was cool to read a bad book that still decently explored such an array of queer identities — may have been the first book I’ve read with an ace character! i feel like i could read endlessly just to be able to learn more about them and discover even more depths. Still, Maggie’s grief is palpable, and she has trouble navigating her father and brother’s feelings as well. Unfolding over the course of nine days, and written with enormous heart, All My Mother’s Lovers is a meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties, grief, and generational divides, as well as a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity.



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