Red State, Blue Milk Paperback – October 13, 2025

I Didn’t Set Out To Write About America. I set out to write about motherhood, but the two kept echoing each other. This book gathers what I could not separate: the body that nurses and the body politic that wounds. In a year that carried Gaza and ICE raids and school shootings and endless debate over who deserves safety, I kept writing from the small, ordinary places where those decisions are felt first. The kitchen, the classroom, the body. I wrote to understand what survival asks of the gentle— what it means to raise children among so many endings, and to keep calling it a beginning. Read more