Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth (2015), The Book of Dahlia (2008), How This Night is Different (2006), and the editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot (2010). At The Huffington Post she tagged nine radical books about motherhood, including:Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
I first read Steinbeck in Mr. Bellon’s 11th grade AP English class. It was a joy unlike anything else I’d





