Mother’s Day Picks from Chevalier’s Books

Happy Mother’s Day from Chevalier’s Books!

Does your mom love books?  We love recommending books. LizPicks  for the maternal holiday:

STORIES OF MOTHERHOOD, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell is another Everyman Pocket Classics format, a collection of short stories about motherhood. By authors from Willa Cather to Lydia Davis, it is a perfect gift.

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

A graphic memoir about her mother by a well known cartoonist, this book is for the intellectual mom who’s into psychoanalysis and a different take on mother-daughter relationships.

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by  P.D. Eastman

The classic childrens’ book about the bird who falls from the nest and goes on a search for its mother.  Good for kids and moms.

PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM by Kyung-sook Shin

A bestseller in Korea, this book was originally recommended to me by a Korean customer who read it in her native language. It’s a very moving book, told in 4 voices – the daughter, the son, the husband, and the missing mother herself.

WAITING FOR SUNRISE by William Boyd

The book begins in 1913 Vienna, home of Dr. Freud and psychoanalysis and segueways into a fascinating WWI espionage thriller.  Fluidly written page turner by a brilliant English author.

Stop in and find these and more at your independent local neighborhood bookstore.