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โ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ: ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ณ ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ: ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ.โ
Chantal Braganzaโs writing immediately stood out to meโthereโs something unique and compelling in the way she expresses herself. Her prose is thoughtful, poetic, and often beautifully layered with insight.
There are lines that genuinely stopped me in my tracks, offering reflections on parenthood I hadnโt heard or considered before. Those moments were deeply affecting and, at times, even awe-inspiring.
โ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ; ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ; ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ; ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ตโ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ.โ
However, the structure of the book felt somewhat scattered. The narrative jumps through time and people in a way that occasionally made it difficult to follow or find a clear timeline. I often wished for a stronger thread to hold onto.
Still, ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ is a moving and honest memoir about the emotional complexities of motherhood, loss, and identity. If you enjoy lyrical, introspective nonfiction, this one might be worth exploring.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an advance copy of Story Of Your Mother.
For a man, I believe I am emotional, nostalgic, donโt mind a bit of romance and try to understand and care about the other genders world. However, I donโt think this book was meant for me. There were lots of sections about child parent relationships that I could connect with, but, many that are really about mother and child.
The second concern I have with this book is it is quite short. It is 180 IPad pages, which is already short. But, with many, many short chapters and only half a page or less used at the end of each chapter, I can safely call this a novella.
The third concern is the fact that this is a series of essays, that loosely fit together, each chapter was put together in ways that did not seamlessly fit together. In fact, one could say, it was all over the place. I do think she was trying to put together a bunch of seemingly unrelated parts to represent how she felt as someone made up of many parts, but it didnโt totally work.