All My Mothers - A Reading with Lena Gorelik

“Mothers shape us, even if we don’t want them to; they take root in our minds and hearts, whispering to us, scolding us, comforting us—and they continue to do so even after they’ve passed away, even if we hardly knew them or didn’t know them at all. We take our steps based on who we’ve become—thanks to or in spite of our mothers. We carry them with us forever,” writes Lena Gorelik. *All My Mothers* explores this special, often lifelong and complex relationship and its many facets; it tells of the kinds of mothers we ourselves strive to be, how we fail, doubt, and stumble, and the fears that accompany us—what binds us and shapes us, but also what holds us back, what it means to be a mother by accident or not to be a mother at all, to accept a child, to lose one, or to be unable to let go.

Deepest love, doubt, and very different forms of happiness—in the first and perhaps closest bond of our lives, the entire cosmos of human relationships comes to light. This book is for everyone.