Bookworm, no. 34

Michelle Sinclair reviews Katherine Leyton’s “Motherlike.” Isabel Pasila on Adrian Markle’s debut novel. Looking back at the pandemic. Inside the April issue.

A New-found Occupation

Motherlike
Katherine Leyton
Second Story Press
228 pages, softcover

Slim, dense, and compulsively readable, Katherine Leyton’s Motherlike defies categorization. At once a memoir, an interrogation of “motherhood,” and a love letter to her newborn son, Jude, this lyrical narrative is a departure for Leyton, whom many know as a poet. Thro…