Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps
by By Isay, Dave (EDT)
Category: Family & Relationships , Parenting , Motherhood

"What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it   brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that moment equips you to live through it. That's what I would   give to you." -Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons, in conversation with her daughter, Danyealah Green-Lemons   In Mom, Dave Isay-StoryCorps's founder and the editor of the project's bestselling collection,   Listening Is an Act of Love-presents a celebration of American mothers. Featuring StoryCorps's most   revelatory stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original   portrait of motherhood. Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives,   siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In stories that take us from the woods of New   Hampshire to urban Detroit and beyond, we meet mothers and children from all walks of life-an immigrant mother   instilling in her children the importance of education, adult children caring for an elderly parent, a woman   remembering the sound of her mother's laugh, and mothers and children of all ages learning to grow into new roles   over time. Visiting families in moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph, we   learn new truths about that most primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between mother and child.   With this vital contribution to the American storybook, StoryCorps has created a tribute to mothers that   honors the wealth of our national experience. An appreciation of the wisdom and generosity passed between   mothers and children, this generation to the next, Mom offers powerful lessons in the meaning of family   and the expansiveness of the human heart.    Watch a Video