It’s a Boy
IT’S A BOY: WOMEN WRITERS ON RAISING SONS
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan
Seal Press, November 2005; $14.95
“For all the energy and space women have given to reflection on the role of men in their lives, as lovers or fathers, too little has been said about that other crucial male-female bond, between a mother and a son. Andrea Buchanan has put together a terrific collection of diverse voices on the subject, and as a mother of two sons myself, I read every page with the alternate pleasure of recognition and discovery. These are funny, true, and occasionally heartwrenching essays. They make me wish I could do it all again.” –Joyce Maynard
It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons, edited by Andrea J. Buchanan, features 30 essays exploring “boy-ness” and the mother-son relationship. Taking on topics from aggression (”The Bully’s Mother”) to mothering a teenaged boy (”Shapeshifter”) to wishing for a daughter but getting a son (”Breaking the Curse”), the stories in IT’S A BOY reflect the ways women have found the particular experience of mothering boys to be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.
Featuring contributors Stephany Aulenback, Karen Bender, Kathryn Black, Robin Bradford, Gayle Brandeis, Faulkner Fox, Katie Allison Granju, Ona Gritz, Gwendolen Gross, Melanie Lynn Hauser, Marrit Ingman, Susan Ito, Suzanne Kamata, Katie Kaput, Jennifer Lauck, Caroline Leavitt, Jody Mace, Jennifer Margulis, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Catherine Newman, Sue O’Doherty, Marjorie Osterhout, Jamie Pearson, Lisa Peet, Jodi Picoult, Maura Rhodes, Rochelle Shapiro, Kate Staples, and Marion Winik.
Click here to read the Introduction, or read the USA Today article about the Girl and Boy books.