Lightning Is a Mother by Bethany Jarmul Ingram From the #1 New York

From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind

When she was forced to leave her last home

”—Time Out New York

With keen insight and mordant humor

and lands in between and far beyond

Lightning Is a Mother by Bethany Jarmul Ingram From the #1 New YorkIn this breathtaking, expansive poetry collection, Bethany Jarmul explores identity, spirituality, motherhood, and nature. Within these lyrically rich poems, Appalachia is a kind of Eden, a paradise spoiled by humanity. Eve, the first mother, becomes a starting point for the speaker's exploration of what it means to be a mother, an earth dweller, a self. This book opens in creation, unflinchingly faces the dangers and wonders of our world, and ends