Carrie Mullins discusses & signs THE BOOK OF MOTHERS with Danielle Friedman

"Timely and evergreen, engaging and infuriating, personal and universal—a necessary reintroduction to some of fiction's most familiar mothers." —Cecile Richards, bestselling author of Make Trouble and former president of Planned Parenthood

This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature.

Carrie Mullins is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Parents, Food & Wine Magazine, Epicurious, Tin House, and Publishers Weekly, among other publications. She is a former National Editor at the James Beard Award-winning website Serious Eats and a longtime contributor to Electric Literature, where she covered the intersection of literature and culture. She lives in New York City with her husband and sons.

Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, gender, and culture. Her first book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, was published by Putnam Books (Penguin Random House) in the US and Icon Books in the UK in January 2022. It was selected as a New Yorker, Financial Times, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.