SOURCE: Review of Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood, in Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 1997, p. 1692.

In the following review, the critic praises the evocative immediacy of Moraga's motherhood experiences in Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood.

[Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood is] an honest, introspective memoir of evolving lesbian motherhood.

When Chicana lesbian writer Moraga (coeditor, This Bridge Called My Back, not reviewed) was 40, she decided to have a child. She asked her white lover (who is called Ella here, the Spanish word for "she") to help, not so much to be the other mother as to continue to be Moraga's partner and support; inevitably, though, Ella does turn out to be a "comother." Moraga asks her much younger Mexican friend Pablo to donate sperm; he too ends up becoming very involved with the baby. Against the odds, Moraga...