Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood

an impressionistic, 1901 painting titled After the Bath by Mary Cassatt depicts a mother and two children--the mother holds a younger baby, while an older child looks on--the mother's face is pensive and serene

Finding Community in Isolation in Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood

ByAmanda Parrish Morgan

In the conversations Sarah Menkedick has with new mothers, it becomes clear that the relationship between motherhood and fear is a cycle propelled by isolation and shame. Menkedick’s book itself, though, offers a sort of ad-hoc community of and for mothers.