A Lesson in Courage and Tenderness: On Krys Malcolm Belc’s “The Natural Mother of the Child”
This memoir pushes readers to look deeper at what is natural, what is manmade, and what makes a man.
Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Emerging Critic, her work has appeared in RHINO, Cosmonauts Avenue, Prairie Schooner, and The Guardian. She is a high school teacher in Denver, where she lives with her family.
This memoir pushes readers to look deeper at what is natural, what is manmade, and what makes a man.