Describe Garbes identity. How does her identity contribute to her thematic explorations?

Garbes is a woman of color, a wife, a mother of two daughters, and a writer. She is the daughter of immigrants, both of whom migrated from the Philippines to the United States when they were in her twenties. In the text's introduction, Garbes asserts that being a mother is only one facet of her identity. Therefore, she is not interrogating stereotypical versions of mothering and caretaking simply as a means of redefining her own identity. Rather, she is arguing in the name of more comprehensive and dynamic definitions of these roles. Indeed, Garbes's version of mothering is not limited to the ways in which she has been mothered. Rather, it is defined by her personal studies, her life in Pennsylvania, her relationship with Will, her work as a writer, her voracious appetite, and her...