On the Auto-Fictional Novel, Motherhood, by Sheila Heti

On the Auto-Fictional Novel, Motherhood, by Sheila Heti

While my LiveTrue book collection focuses on nonfiction, given my background as a writer and author on childfree and parenthood decision-related topics, the subject matter of this novel makes it an exception! Check out book review team member Brittany Brolley’s...
Regretting Motherhood: A Study, by Orna Donath

Regretting Motherhood: A Study, by Orna Donath

Israeli sociologist Orna Donath breaks important ground in her book, Regretting Motherhood: A Study. She bravely takes on motherhood regret squarely and directly, and questions “the social order and systems of power that present women with only one possibility: that...
To The End of June: An Intimate Life of American Foster Care

To The End of June: An Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Review by Melanie Davis The foster care system receives billions of dollars, yet after five years of dedicated research, author Cris Beam reveals how poorly this system is working.  To The End of June: An Intimate Life of American Foster Care shines a focused light on...
Peggy Orenstein: From Cinderella Ate My Daughter to Girls & Sex

Peggy Orenstein: From Cinderella Ate My Daughter to Girls & Sex

Upon receiving a review copy of Peggy Orenstein’s latest book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, from her publicist at HarperCollins, I recalled another book of hers I really enjoyed, Cinderella Ate My Daughter. Here is a look back at...
Baby Steps: To Have Kids or Not Have Kids, That is the Question

Baby Steps: To Have Kids or Not Have Kids, That is the Question

Last year a lovely woman named Mara Altman contacted me and asked if I would be willing to talk with her about my book, The Baby Matrix. She is a freelance writer, and has published best-selling Kindle Singles. One of them, Thanks for Coming, “follows her on an...

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