Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals Rachel Hollis. HarperCollins Leadership, $27.99 (240p) If you’re a goal-digger, or a goal-getter and a woman, Girl, Stop Apologizing was written for you. It’s even more for you if you’re a wife and mom with dreams on the back burner. Did you put…
Motherhood By Sheila Heti Illustrated. 284 pages. Should she become a mother, or shouldn’t she? Her body is capable, yet time is running out. Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood doubles as a philosophical text impacted by the physiological that attempts to answer this question. Spoiler alert: I think it’s brilliant! At the Agency of Women event…
Devotion. It’s a charged word with a lot of weight, isn’t it? Devotion by Dani Shapiro is a spiritual detective story that seeks to answer the question, “What beliefs are worthy of devotion?” Some people enjoy the comfort of knowing what to devote themselves to. “They had certainty,” Shapiro writes of her extended family. “I…
