Unveiling Hidden Truths: Julie Marie Wade’s Riveting Journey in "Other People’s Mothers"
Wade writes closely from the perspective of her young self. From these earliest observations of how girls and boys must behave the themes mature along with the narrator. As the essays proceed, we accompany her through dawning realizations about how families form — it’s not the stork — and how they shatter. After an unsatisfying inquiry into whether angels are real, the narrator reveals her central endeavor:
“My heart cannot be plumbed, let alone parsed into language… But inside my mind, which I can picture like a long hallway that leads to a messy dressing room, I set about the task of sorting my thoughts into piles — what I’ve been told versus what I believe, what I doubt versus what I know for sure.”
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