Motherhood, and the Places Between
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Pub Date 6 Oct 2026 | Archive Date 23 Dec 2026
Iron Oak Editions | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
There is a place most women know but few books inhabit: the space between who you were before and who you are becoming. Between daughter and mother. Between hope and grief.
Jacqueline Kolosov has written her way through that place with honesty, intelligence, and prose of rare beauty. In essays that range from the West Texas plains to the gardens of London to the cliffs of St. Ives, she traces the years in which she underwent fertility treatment, suffered a miscarriage, raised a young daughter, watched her parents age, helped a dying colleague navigate a university hallway, and sat at the bedside of a friend whose cancer would not relent. These are lyric essays about loss, but more than that, they are about the forms of attention that make loss survivable: a Cassatt pastel glimpsed in childhood, a horse's warm flank beneath a cold morning sky, a daughter's hand in hers at the edge of the sea.
Searching, tender, and deeply alive, Motherhood, and the Places Between is the book readers will press into the hands of the women they love most.
Advance Praise
"Motherhood, and the Places Between is a moving, thought-provoking and incisive collection of essays exploring the interlinking strands of motherhood, transformation and loss. Through a deeply-personal lens, the book asks vital questions about community and responsibility, most pertinently about the challenges of raising a child in a dangerous, hostile and rapidly-changing world. Intimate, compassionate and lyrical, these essays invite us into the inner life of a fiercely curious mind grappling with the struggles of what it means to live and love and nurture and care in these volatile times. A profound and transformative book.”
—Sam Meekings, author of Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief
“Jacqueline Kolosov, following in the path of great thinker and lyric prose writer, Virginia Woolf, has given us an astonishing ‘Sketch of the Past,’ for our tumultuous times. The beating heart of these linked essays is a gripping, heart-wrenching IVF journey but its reach expands deep into an exploration of both her ancestral and literary past, familial wounds, the sustaining nature of some friendships—even after death, Mary Cassatt’s passion for ‘freedom to work,’ the nuanced and complex relationships with medical professionals, and the way caring for a beloved daughter, dogs, and horses can give us the communion that provides life with profound meaning. Weaving Woolf’s luminous prose with her own, Kolosov reminds us, in case we have forgotten that ‘the great revelation perhaps never did come’ and that we only get moments of happiness or ‘moments of being’ as Woolf called them. And how, as humans, that is what abides and sustains us through our lives. This triumphant book exemplifies ‘the value of story‘ as Kolosov writes in the final essay,‘with its variegated points of light.’”
—Jennifer Franklin, A Fire In Her Brain
Marketing Plan
Seasonal timing: October 6 publication aligns with Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month; further hooks at Women's History Month and Mother's Day 2027.
Reviews: ARCs to literary journals and trade outlets, with targeted outreach to core-audience publications.
Publicity: features and excerpts pitched on the pregnancy-loss and women-artists angles; author pitched for podcasts and literary sites.
Author: monthly Substack newsletter; available for readings, virtual book-club visits, and interviews.
Social media: sustained Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok program featuring passages and the book's visual world.
Trade: independent-bookseller outreach, book-club programming, a reading-group guide, and library coverage.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798989608461 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 270 |