Top 10 Best Books about Motherhood You Should Read

Alongside the classic books, modern literature continuously adds writings about mothers that resonate with readers, evoking empathy and tears. Let's explore some excellent books about motherhood together with Mytour! Don't Let Mom Cry, Returning Home to Mother, Care for Mom, Please Don't Make Mom Cry, Mother's Scent, Infinitely Cruel, Infinitely Loving, My Mother - Stories of Mothers in Famous Intellectual Families of the 20th Century, Promises at Dawn, Faults in Affection - Coming Home to Mother, Mother's Fragrance.

The work Care for Mom by South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin begins with the chaotic scene of a family. The mother gets lost while preparing to board the subway with her husband at Seoul Station. The grandparents intended to come here to visit their eldest son. The eldest daughter, Chi-hon, is the one who writes the missing person notice for the whole family. 'Description: Short salt-and-pepper hair, high cheekbones, wearing a sky blue shirt, white jacket, beige pleated skirt.' In her subconscious, Chi-hon still thinks of her mother as someone who often 'walks amidst the crowd with a demeanor that could threaten even the towering buildings looking down from above.' Meanwhile, passersby respond to her missing person notice with descriptions of 'an old lady walking steadily, occasionally squatting on the street or standing still in front of a staircase.' Is that the mother that the family is tirelessly searching for?

Days, weeks, and nearly a month slowly pass by. The husband and children are now not only worried about the fever but also troubled by guilt and confusion 'in a panic as if everyone had been injured in the brain area.' They also wonder why their mother didn't ask for directions home for their eldest son until they discover two truths: their mother can't read, and she's suffering from breast cancer, which affects her cognitive abilities. From here, the hopes of finding their mother become even more fragile...

This is 'The most famous South Korean author's book that can make every reader shed tears.' - Library Journal, making readers 'Touched and haunted.' - Newsday, 'It's a song about the power of family ties formed from the selflessness of a woman; this is an extremely touching work.' - Kirkus Reviews and is the 'bestselling family book in Korea to date.' - Publishers Weekly

The work touches on the common situation of many modern children with a big message: not because of lack of love but because of being too busy to the point of neglecting their parents. Care for Mom, when it was just released, created a craze and was seen as a bright spot in the South Korean literary world. Not only commercially successful, the work is also highly acclaimed by critics, making waves across Asian countries. The work has been published in 19 countries, including the United States.

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'Mom says this world has all kinds of people, each with their own way of living, right? Mom also says that differences aren't bad. But why are those words always an exception for me?'

Unexpected financial difficulties force Green to move back in with her mother. But she's not alone; she brings along another girlfriend, her partner of seven years. Three people - two generations with deeply different ideologies and worldviews - can they peacefully coexist under one roof when the efforts to find a common ground sometimes cause more harm than reconciliation?

Coming Home to Mother, written by the insightful, mature pen of young author Hyejin Kim, delicately touches on contemporary aspects while shedding light on fresh perspectives on family, especially the mother-daughter relationship. This book aims at conveying a profound humanitarian message about motherhood.

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This is the book by the famous novelist and director Cuu Ba Dao from Chương Hóa district, Taiwan. This autobiography is created from Cuu Ba Dao's real experiences when the author's mother was diagnosed with leukemia and began an expensive treatment process. The author devotedly wrote to earn money to care for his mother while she was in the hospital. 14 months of caring for his mother, 14 books were born. The 14th book is 'A Scent of Mother'.

With simple, natural, unadorned writing, Cuu Ba Dao portrays most truthfully, most 'life-like' the deeply cherished love of children for their mother and depicts the mother's love for them through 'A Scent of Mother'. That affectionate, sacred, precious emotion through Cuu Ba Dao's close and truthful storytelling is like contagious viruses spreading rapidly into the hearts of readers everywhere, making our hearts beat faster, tremble more when reading those pages.

Very simple yet deeply meaningful, Cuu Ba Dao's words like: 'He lay extra a week in his mother's womb, because he didn't want to leave his mother. I lay a week short in my mother's womb, because I wanted to see my mother soon. The youngest lay in his mother's womb without missing a day, then jumped out, because he had a date with his mother. The three of us, from inside our mother's womb, already loved our mother in our own way.' If life were always calm, perhaps we would never recognize the values, the love that exist around us. How many children have assumed that their parents' care and love for them from meals, sleep, to the mother leaning against the door waiting every time they return late is a duty, is obvious. Until a disaster strikes...

'A Scent of Mother' captivates readers because when they look at it, readers realize that somewhere in the author's own story is their own story. Thanks to the disaster, people slow down, perceive everything happening around them, and reminisce about beautiful memories of their mother. The time spent with their mother fighting illness is also the time when the whole family regrets for always passively accepting their mother's sacrifices, and thus becoming dependent, relying.

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The title of the book Please Don't Make Mom Cry has evoked emotions in many readers. This soulful work is a collection of simple yet profound stories about mothers, about mother-child relationships - a love that knows no conditions and nothing can compare. In these pages, you will rediscover and recognize moments of empathy in love, emotions about mothers, childhood memories cherished with mothers, and reflections on mothers, mistakes, and all that mothers have sacrificed for us. A meaningful quote to remember is: “Mother! Means forever. It means giving without expecting anything in return” (Thanh Nguyen)

From ancient times to the present, the most sacred and profound love in the world has always been a mother's love for her children. When we were young, our mothers were always the closest, most intimate people to us, nurturing us day by day. As the years go by, we grow up, entering life with dreams and myriad worries. There are times when we seem to forget our mothers, only to suddenly realize, at some point, that we have wronged our mothers. Yet, no matter where she is, our mothers always follow our every step and always love their children! There are times when we long to be with our mothers, to be cared for, advised, and looked after by our mothers. There are times when we can do that - but sometimes not, and sometimes it's too late... And there will be times when we long to reconcile with our mothers... And there are times when we suddenly realize that no matter how many gifts we give our mothers or thousands of red roses, nothing compares to a hug and kiss from our mothers with truly special affection from the heart!

For example, the story Mother and Child - a mother always complains because her child always wants to be with her, but she feels burdened when going with the child due to work. Then one day, she understands why her children need her, but it's sad because by then, her child no longer wants to be with her. The story Mother's Miracle shows that doing good for a child does not mean spoiling the child, like the mother in the story did for Ken, a 9-year-old child with cerebral palsy, deafness, and congenital intellectual disabilities. Ken liked the sled but couldn't sled with the wooden runners. However, with a mother's heart, she helped Ken sled with the sled, even though it took Ken a few days to climb on and off the sled and the two torn pants legs revealed scratches and blood. Thanks to the mother's perseverance and heart, the 9-year-old child with cerebral palsy became an independent man with a stable job.

The portrait of Mother is an immutable and timeless image, challenging all distances and hindrances of space. That image helps us not only have enough strength to go to the end of the chosen path but also have enough faith to always look towards the light on each journey we take. And one day, each of us becomes parents continuing to bestow upon future generations our own beautiful love... The soulful message the book wants to convey to everyone is: 'If you truly love Mother, please don't make Mother cry!'

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Simple, humble, My Mother - Stories of mothers in famous intellectual families of the 20th century collects writings by the very offspring in the families of intellectuals, famous figures of the 20th century who wrote about their mothers - those in the background silently sacrificing, contributing significantly to the success of the patriarchs.

They are the genuine, kind-hearted, and industrious mothers in the families of painter Nguyen Phan Chanh, scholar Phan Khoi, historian Tran Huy Lieu, and Professor Dang Thai Mai. Thanks to mother Tong Thi Trung's encouragement and determination to educate her daughter, writer Nguyet Tu - daughter of painter Nguyen Phan Chanh - was able to complete her education. Although her mother did not receive an education, she always believed, 'whether a son or a daughter, if they can learn, let them learn.' During the revolutionary years of historian Tran Huy Lieu, Nguyen Thi Ty single-handedly managed the family's meals, maintaining a large family's sustenance as writer Tran Chien believed: 'Without her, would there be the revolutionary Tran Huy Lieu? Would my father be content to leave the litter of children somewhere, for someone, to go do things that satisfy their patriotism? It's hard to imagine.' The children in Professor Dang Thai Mai's family were nurtured from childhood in the gentle embrace of their mother, amidst folk sayings, mother Hồ Thị Toan's lullabies, and verse.

Scholar Phan Khoi had two wives, and his children Phan Thi My Khanh and Phan An Sa wrote about them: My grandmother and My mother, with profound gratitude for the immense sacrifices of their mothers in raising children throughout extremely difficult times when their father worked far from home, and in the end, suffered losses and fell into oblivion for half a century.

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Incredibly Ruthless, Incredibly Loving is a book by a Jewish mother, a mother born and raised in Shanghai who understands how to raise her children. The book was written after many years when Sara's children had grown. Published in 2013, it has been translated into Vietnamese and widely sold in major bookstores as well as online bookstores in Vietnam. Sara is a mother who understands the need to change the way she raises a child, breaking away from long-standing conventional thinking. She understands that she cannot follow her child all her life, cannot always be there to remind and educate her child in every situation, and cannot be like helicopters that can come to her child anytime they need.

Incredibly Ruthless, Incredibly Loving is a confession, insights from a mother's experience with her children. She wants to write this book hoping that everyone can understand and somewhat change their thinking in raising children. Be flexible, let the children develop freely, and mothers are the ones who guide and point out what's right and wrong, not scolding but instead giving very gentle yet profound advice.

The book has accompanied mothers everywhere, becoming a bedside book for loving mothers who always wonder if they have raised their children like that. Being a mother is also a course, no mother is already proficient, already experienced. So the process of being a mother is also a process of continuous learning and experience. Not only mothers but also children should read this book to empathize with each other, sympathize with the mistakes of the past. The book is extremely useful and gentle, if you've read it, share it with everyone and especially with your beloved mothers, loved ones!

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The book, authored by singer Thanh Duy and his beloved mother, was published in March 2016. After being announced and widely sold at major bookstores, Faults in Affection - Coming Home to Mom received very positive feedback. When reading about faults in affection - coming home to mom, almost everyone sees themselves in it, sees themselves in a time of youthful indiscretion, with love, separation, baseless anger, and the images and stories that singer Thanh Duy brings to readers in a gentle way, the life of a singer with his mother is very ordinary like everyone else's, it is a beautiful peaceful life, in every story are the mistakes Thanh Duy wants to express.

In each page, besides Thanh Duy's confessions, there are also sweet poems from his mother, those poems are like responses to the child. The stories and poems blend together to create a wonderful melody. The book is a bridge between mother and child, it helps mother and child understand each other better, and the mother-child bond becomes stronger. Read Faults in Affection - Coming Home to Mom to pour your heart out and give your mother the happiness she deserves.

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Promises at Dawn recounts the childhood and much of the life of Romain Gary - a two-time winner of the Goncourt Prize, one of the most outstanding writers of 20th-century French literature. His years in Russia, Poland, and Nice, the periods of prosperity and poverty, the adventures through battles in France, England, Ethiopia, Syria, and equatorial Africa, all bear the mark of his greatest love, the love for his elusive mother, his idealism, his passion for France, his extraordinary courage mixed with recklessness - the source of both hilarious and intensely emotional moments in his life, contributing to a glorious diplomatic career and giving the world a gifted writer.

Phrased as an autobiography but not strictly one, Promises at Dawn skillfully intertwines events with literary flair, so that ultimately, the entire truth becomes a single artistic truth, refined, captivating, and profoundly moving. Blending humor with tragedy, this autobiographical novel encapsulates numerous layers, containing moments of affection, mockery, and bitter hardship, portraying a single mother's struggle to raise her child from the womb. She lives, labors, endures, and rises above humiliations, setbacks, deficiencies, and illnesses to impart her child with unwavering truths: to live is not to allow oneself to fail and be weak. This becomes both pressure and the greatest source of resilience, revealing boundless capabilities and boundless emotions within a person.

On another level of interpretation, the work provokes thoughts on the existence of affection in life, on the citizen's responsibility to the motherland, and on the irrationality and atrocity of war. Promises at Dawn bears the distinct mark of Romain Gary, talented, idealistic, extraordinarily courageous yet recklessly wonderful. Through it, we delve deeper into the power, determination, and love of a mother for her child. A mother is truly grand and powerful, and her noble sacrifice is always the greatest source of motivation for a child, nothing else in the world. The boundless sea cannot contain a mother's love...

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Mother's Scent is a book written by someone who always acknowledges herself as imperfect but never stops craving self-improvement in various roles: a daughter, a woman, a mother.

'Mother's Scent' is a collection of reflections by a writer full of deep affection for life, full of belief in good things, even though in her journey to maturity, she experiences all the ups and downs of joy, anger, love, and sorrow. You will see the figure of a profound woman, yet with the soul of a girl - loving what is true and constantly wanting to explore the many colors of life. Therefore, no matter who you are - old, young, male, female - if you also want to believe that family affection can nourish the soul of each person, want to pause in the fast pace of life to look deep within yourself and broaden your view of the world, this is the book for you.

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