Not The Way You Expect: A Collection of Words on Motherhood box set Written by Blair Knobel and

Written by Blair Knobel and illustrated by Alice Ratterree

Julian becomes an even more deeply observant traveling companion

A midwife writes birth haiku on each beginning

The map is paired with The South Carolina BBQ Project by Nathan Spainhour

Not The Way You Expect: A Collection of Words on Motherhood box set Written by Blair Knobel andAn anthology of words from 19 writers around the topic of motherhood. Its nearly impossible to feel nothing about motherhood. Each of us comes from a mother, in fact. We adore them, we resent them, we miss them, we are them. This book of poems, prose, and short stories is a collection of words on all shades of motherhood. The wonderful, the painful, and everything between. Motherhood isnt a monolith, after all. And its almost never what you expect.