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Title: Mothers & Sons: A Celebration in Memories, Stories, and Photographs by Jill M. Morgan, Anthology, Eric Jerome Dickey ISBN: 0-451-20009-8 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Mothers & Sons: A few gems among the gravel.
Comment: This is not a "best of mothers and sons stories" anthology. It is a somewhat haphazard collection of stories written by mothers and sons for this compilation. Nowhere is it noted which stories are fiction and which are fact. The reader can get through a whole story which reads like a memoir, only to find out at the very end that it was fiction. Very confusing. The introduction by Jill Morgan is just another sentimental ode to the writer's own sons, giving little clue as to what is contained in the book.

There are a few gems amid the gravel however, including one diamond: Eric Jerome Dickey's "Fish Sammich with Cheese," a true tale about the author as a five-year-old. Taken from his loving foster family by his disturbed biological mother on the pretense of getting a fish "sammich", it is a poignant and brilliantly written story of a brave child's struggle to find his way back home.

The photographs which accompany each story are a nice touch, putting a personal face on the stories. But again, they add to the confusion as to which stories are memoir and which are fiction: are the mother and son pictured the ones that the story is about, or not?

Some of the stories end with an "afterward" from the author and some do not. There are biographical notes on the authors at the back of the book. Overall, there are some good tales in here, but better organization of the material would have made for a much more enjoyable read.

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