This month’s featured titles include essays on womanhood, an anti-aging cookbook, and a debut legal thriller set in Zambia.
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Nicole Graev Lipson ’98
“Anchored by topics such as motherhood and daughterhood, friendship and marriage, beauty, aging, and gender stereotypes, the essays cohere into a revealing memoir,” says Kirkus, observing that the works are “deftly crafted” and “likely to resonate with grateful readers.”
A winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Arts & Sciences alum has been included in the annual Best American Essays volume and has been published in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and elsewhere.
In her essay collection, she contemplates being a woman in the modern age—pondering such topics as marital fidelity, female friendship, assisted reproduction, and the need for solitude even within a happy marriage. Along the way, she draws perspective and inspiration from literature—from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Alice Munro.
“Lipson’s prose isn’t only gorgeous, it’s skillful—dare I say masterful,” says the Chicago Review of Books. “Each sentence sculpted with grace, each paragraph constructed with careful planning. Each essay using a range of literary techniques, stunning in their execution.”
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