What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

这是一本拒绝为母爱加滤镜的散文集。十五位作者写下的，是母亲作为「人」的残缺、矛盾与失败——她会酗酒、会撒谎、会用沉默逃避生活，也会在某个被羞辱的夜里独自痛哭。它戳破了一个温柔的谎言：母亲天然是保护者，无私、完整、值得敬重。书中没有和解的爽文，只有成年子女面对那道「缺口」时的无力——多懂得她一点、再努力一点，都已是无法重来的奢侈。最打动人的，是它让「说不出口」的疏离、怨怼与遗憾，获得了公开的合法性。适合那些在母亲节感到隐隐作痛的人：或许你早已失去她，或许她健在却陌生，又或许你只是终于承认，母爱从来不是完美的代名词。

Michele Filgate is a contributing editor at Literary Hub and the editor of What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, an anthology based on her Longreads essay. Currently, she is an M.F.A. student at NYU, where she is the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Refinery29, Slice, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Salon, Interview Magazine, Buzzfeed, The Barnes & Noble Review, Poets & Writers, CNN.com, Fine Books & Collections Magazine, DAME Magazine, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Time Out New York, People, The Daily Beast, O, The Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, Vulture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Star Tribune, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She teaches creative nonfiction for The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop and Catapult and is the founder of the Red Ink literary series. In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture." She's a former board member of the National Book Critics Circle.