Unveiling Hidden Truths: Julie Marie Wade’s Riveting Journey in "Other People’s Mothers"
Recent years have offered an abundance of exquisitely written memoirs of matrescence. With Other People’s Mothers (University of Florida Press; Sept. 2025), Julie Marie Wade turns this form inside out. Through this series of essays about mothers Wade encountered in her conservative West Seattle childhood, she invites the reader into the experiences that forged her early resolve to never become a mother herself.
Wade, a contributor to Hippocampus Magazine, is the author and collaborator on more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Telephone, reviewed by Tyler Barton in 2021. She excels at developing simple frames that generate abundant content, and this skill is on full display in Other People’s Mothers.
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