What My Mother and I Don't Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite

Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life

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What My Mother and I Don't Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite"You will devour these beautifully written and very important tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don't talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to