MOM: a Celebration of Mothers from StorycorpsEditor: Dave Isay
Penguin Press, 2010. 186 pgs. Nonfiction
The Storycorps project started as a booth set up in the Grand Central Terminal in NYC. Travelers could come in, sit in the booth and record a portion of their personal story: their lives, their memories and their wisdom. Mom is the result of thousand of people's reminiscences of their mothers and strives to capture just a few of the amazing stories that exist.
The book is organized into three sections: Wisdom, Devotion and Enduring Love. I found the advice Leah Haseley’s mother gave her insightful—“You be the one” she always said. “You be the one to make up with a friend or to reach out and break the silence between you.” What splendid advice from those ever brilliant people—our mothers.
Included is a list of questions in the back for readers to interview their own mothers, a project sure to be cherished by both parties. As founder of the Storycorps project Dave Isay says,“the individual stories we’ve collected have taught us that as a nation there is much more that we share than divides us”. So three cheers for Moms, we couldn’t have done it without you.
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