Perhaps more than any other relationship or identity, motherhood is both organic and constructed. Mothers are created by their children, and then simultaneously expanded and abbreviated by maternity as a social category. In Scar Tissue: Tracing Motherhood, Montreal writer and literary philosopher Sara Danièle Michaud brings her considerable intellectual scope to the impossible intimacy of this most primal human relationship. Intense and intertextual, the book draws as easily from Saint Augustine as from Sheila Heti, weaving a long essay that is both deeply personal and eloquently universal.

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"One of the strongest, most original, candid texts I have read about becoming a mother?about moving on to that new life?and which also manages to avoid idealization." Radio-Canada
"By sharing this most intimate notebook with the world, Sara Danièle Michaud achieves something that is almost sacred; she makes it possible for the singular to become universal?her own experience, but also that of women writers who have come before her and who, like her, have sought to enter into conversation and into relationships, with other mothers." Le Devoir