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The Story I Told My Mother: Poems & an Essay by Jennifer Gravley

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
I no longer put stars on my reviews. 

Anyone who has lost their mother, especially daughters who have lost their mothers, will relate to this collection of poems with an essay at the end. But you don't have to be in the same situation to find this collection profound and moving. 

Sample line from a poem titled "Other People's Narratives" --
"All summer long it was the summer your mother would die."
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