Books like The best mother by Cynthia Surrisi

A story of a young woman's love for her child and the challenges of separation from her newborn baby in a utopian society.

An orphan with Tourette's teams up with a trio of street‑smart boys to run a low‑budget detective agency in Brooklyn—only to find himself embroiled in a murder mystery after their mobster boss is killed.

A timely collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit that examines gender, feminism, misogyny, and the cultural treatment of women with sharp insight and humor.

When Caridad is summoned back to the Philippines, her mother reveals a life‑shattering secret that forces her to confront her true identity, the war’s hidden wounds, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.

A little mouse searches for a Christmas gift for his mother.

After small mouse asks his mother for something to nibble on, his mother takes him with her as she gathers honey, flour, berries, and cream, explaining how they're all going to be part of a special treat.

In *Mothering Sunday*, Graham Swift traces the life of orphaned maid Jane Fairchild, whose years of service in an English country house and secret affair with the neighboring estate’s heir span from 1924 to the end of the twentieth century.

During a dry time, Mama leaves Little One alone while she climbs the highest mountain to ask the skies for rain, but she promises that her love will remain all around.

Animal characters celebrate mothers, especially ones who play fun games, have bright smiles, and kiss hurt knees.

In a world where children shape parents, eighteen‑year‑old Scarper Lee faces an imminent deathday, forcing him to leave his routine, test friendships, and challenge authority.

Ask any woman whose mother has died and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as profoundly changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. And although a mother's mortality is as inevitable as nightfall, no other book has addressed the lasting effects of this incalculable loss. First published more than a decade ago and now available in this updated edition, Motherless Daughters is still the book that women of all ages look to for understanding and comfort when their mothers die, and it is the book that they continue to press into each other's hands. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, this life-affirming book is newly expanded to reflect the author's personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss. Now married and a mother of young children herself, Hope Edelman better understands how the effects of mother loss change over time and in light of new relationships. This groundbreaking book interweaves the author's own story with those of hundreds of women across the U.S. Their words express how growing up without a mother continues to affect their relationships with others and themselves.

A little girl learns coping skills with her grandmother’s help, balancing her mother’s mental illness as a child of color in the African American community.

All the animals love to kiss the baby in this board book.