What readers think of Mothers and Other Strangers, plus links to write your own review.

This is a raw but intimate novel exploring motherhood, mother-daughter relationships and friendships, all essential parts of life. Sydney and Mae meet as children as their mothers, Beth Ann (type-a personality) and Joni (free-spirited) watch them play. A friendship between the mothers makes them inseparable until a falling out. Years later single pregnant Sydney still misses Mae. She and her mother, Beth Ann, are drawn into mid level marketing scheme. Across the city, Mae finds herself single and pregnant and missing her mother, Joni, who died mysteriously. Mae is an artist famous for her picture of two girls. Eventually the two young women meet and start to untangle themselves from coercive elements like ex-boyfriends, moms groups, etc. but as they reunite it becomes clear there is a secret that underlies the friendship that could destroy it all.
Well written. Taut and suspenseful. Great read.

I'd like to thank NetGalley and Hachette Books for allowing me to read this ARC.