Win a copy of Ex Marks the Spot by Gregory Norris; a signed copy of My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon; and a copy of Four Funerals, No Marriage by Mike Keren.

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About Ex Marks the Spot

How far would you go to save the first love of your life?

Ten years ago on an August night, Steve Ranley crashed his ride into a tree, taking a big part of Oliver Canfield's soul with him. In the decade since, Oliver and Bradley MacIntyre have built a successful life together, but their relationship has always been haunted by Steve's death. On the dark anniversary, Oliver is thrust back counterclockwise in time to the summer before Steve's accident. Using his second chance, Oliver vows to alter the events leading to the tragedy. He reunites with Steve, only history doesn't follow the exact course as he remembers it, and circumstances lead to him meeting Bradley years before he was meant to. His corrupting of established time could save the first love of his life while dooming the second.

My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the "baby blues," the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.

The undertaking of creating life is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don't get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here's one to remind you of the important things.

In Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir, author Mike Keren gives his readers an inside look at his unexpected foray into caregiving to his sick and dying parents and in-laws. Often funny and always poignant, the story begins when his loving but difficult parents announce they are moving back to New Jersey from their retirement home in North Carolina because they "never really liked it there." Within days of arriving on a house-hunting trip, his father is hospitalized with a stroke and his mother with another in a series of heart attacks. At the same time, his partner's mother is recuperating from a hysterectomy and struggling with chemotherapy after a diagnosis of uterine cancer. Additionally, he must deal with the unhappy marriage between his parents, sibling relationships that have often been his undoing, a homophobic world, and his own lifetime of affective dysregulation."

Image: A colorful graphic with the book covers of Ex Marks the Spot by Gregory Norris, My Body Is a Big Fat Temple by Alena Dillon, and Four Funerals, No Marriage by Mike Keren.