Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothes and daughters -- coming in 2012 -- from Spinsters Ink/Bella Books!

Janet Mason, a second generation feminist, intimately explores the paradoxical legacies of family and culture.  Any woman who has borne witness to the passing of her mother will be moved by this account and any woman who has yet to face this life-changing transition will be illuminated and directed, as if by a map. 

                                                                                                ---Sheila Ortiz Taylor

Janet Mason writes regret with power. Whether this arduous journey is before or behind you, you'll recognize the visceral fear of loss and the longing for peaceful passage.                                                                                  ---KG MacGregor
Tea Leaves is a heartbreaking story of loss and at the same time a fierce and jubilant tribute. It reminds us of the way as daughters our accomplishments are always entangled in our mother’s disappointed dreams. As Janet Mason reveals the legacy of frustration, shame and rage that passed like an unspoken heirloom through generations of her working-class family, she also uncovers a stubborn, bright hope, and a keen sense of injustice, that are equally her inheritance. -- Karen S. Mittelman, author/historian

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New featured writer -- Jim Cory -- new poems
Maralyn Lois Polak...Alexandra Grilikhes....more featured writers....
Toni Brown -- 11/4/08 - 4/19/08 -- in memoriam -- new poems, audio
Portrait of a friendship: in memoriam Toni P. Brown, 11/4/52 to 4/17/08
links to Toni's poetry and audio clips of Toni reading her own work

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