Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters This isn't the self we've

This isn't the self we've built up in response to our surroundings

" and Michael Pollan defends a gothic cousin of the sunflower in "Consider the Castor Bean"

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience

and the people

And how do we even know what we want

Plot Mothers & Big-Sisters This isn't the self we'veIn her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression. Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are at an impasse from her reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. The couple's journey is charted through conversations, dreams, memories, and meditations, expanding and exploding the emotive capabilities of language and