“[Kiley McLaughlin’s] stories are points of arrival and departure, reinvention and return, history and speculation, and the bodily divine. The language is beautifully precise and always surprising, reaching, probing.”
"In search of the book they needed, editors Rebecca Knight and Julie Buntin invited 65 acclaimed writers and artists—Julia Phillips, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Liana Finck, Jenny Slate, Naima Coster, and more—to riff on shared concerns: burp volcanoes, career shifts, breastfeeding logs, partnership dynamics, minor victories and major insecurities. Here is a bedside table companion for every mother who has wondered how she’ll make it through the wilderness of early parenthood, and a window into her experience for the family and friends desperate to better care for their beloved moms-to-be. Brave, unexpected, and revelatory, Notes to New Mothersoffers a new map of motherhood as both a singular and communal experience."
—Electric Literature