We read "Mama" – the most tender hymn to motherhood May 11, 2023 – Posted in: Books – Tags: ,

In a text by the author Hélène Delforge and an impressive illustration by Kentin Greban, the book "Mom" published by Fourfouri publications is a tender hymn to motherhood.
Colorful, multifaceted, diverse, the book tries to formalize the concept of motherhood.
Each page and a different aspect.
Each image and a separate side of the same concept.
What does it mean to be a mother? What it means to carry a creature in your belly for nine months. To hear his heart beating inside you, to feel a new life forming inside you?
Each word becomes the thread from the same skein that weaves and weaves the working hand of motherhood.
The first page is about a mom's firsts, all those magic things her baby does for the first time, all the small and big miracles she does as a first time mom, but also everything they do together for the first time.

But are the first times over? And it really matters if something is done for the first time or for the second time or for the 34th timethe…

Motherhood is an ongoing journey. A route. It's not easy. There is no manual. Not all mothers experience it the same way. Motherhood may be an abstract concept but it is also a tangible quality. For once mom…forever mom.

The umbilical cord is cut, the child is born, it begins its own life, a life however inextricably linked forever with the life of its mother. Even if he never meets her.

Sometimes a woman is ready to become a mother. Some women are made by accident, some by mistake, some not by choice.

Mom, however, is not only a woman who gives birth to a child, but also a woman who undertakes to raise and nurture a child.

The miracle of motherhood is the choice and conscious decision to take on a role that takes you out of yourself, that makes you responsible for another life.

No page of the book is the same, just as no mom is the same as other moms, just as no motherhood day is the same.

Moms from all over the world, of all races, of all ages – and of all centuries – parade through the pages. A mosaic of moms, the voices, the silence, the anguish, the joy, the tears, the fear, the excitement, the insecurity, the happiness – a festival of emotions, an inner explosion with all the psychological nuances that flood the heart of a mom and they give her strength, courage and endurance to continue to care, to lead, to teach, to be an example, to support, to encourage, to take care.. to love freely, without limits, without conditions and conditions, to love with all her might of her soul.

The book is also read as a multi-faceted letter, an open letter of mothers, every mother-mother-mother, to her son, daughter, sons, daughters – their children, children who no matter how they grow up, even when they become the same parents of their own children for their mother will remain young, and her concern and anxiety for their well-being, from the first moment she holds them in her arms until she closes her eyes forever, will be constant , sincere, true and everlasting.

Little snapshots, photos, postcards, notes, excerpts from a peculiar diary, confessions – breaths, whispers, or just a few of the thousands of details of what we call motherhood. This book sheds light, makes as faithful a psychograph as possible, portraying many of her aspects – and I say some, because although it largely succeeds it would be impossible to exhaust or mention them all.

Funny, strict, modern, conservative, independent, sometimes weak, sometimes more dynamic, sometimes richer, sometimes poorer, sometimes awake, sometimes tired, sometimes fearless, sometimes scared, women trying to balance motherhood with their other qualities and the rest of their roles – the mothers who appear in the pages of this book have elements from each individual mother but also from all mothers in the world, those who have gone before and those who will follow.

And that's what makes this book great, it doesn't talk about one mom, it doesn't address one mom... it speaks to all of us.

You can buy the book here