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1 month ago | 
cbc.ca | Miranda July |Heidi Reimer
The Next ChapterThe Toronto writer and columnist for The Next Chapter reviews All Fours by Miranda July, The Change by Kirsten Miller and The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer. Toronto columnist Alicia Cox Thomson joins Antonio Michael Downing on The Next ChapterCBC Books · CBC Books · Posted: Mar 21, 2025 5:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes agoThe Next Chapter columnist Alicia Cox Thomson recommends three novels about being a woman in midlife.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Caitlin Weaver |Heidi Reimer |Laurie Frankel |Ashley Audrain
I loved this book'sraw, unflinching exploration of a taboo topic: the quiet regret some mothers carry. Through Sadie, a fierce Broadway star and feminist icon, and her daughter Jude, an actress on the brink of her own fame, Reimer paints a portrait that's complex and so intimate it’s almost uncomfortable at times. I appreciated how neither woman was cast as the villain, and in their struggle, I found I could relate to both of them at different moments.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
pictongazette.ca | Heidi Reimer |Sarah Henstra
This week and next, the County hosts two authors, friends Sarah Henstra and Heidi Reimer. Both have new novels, and both just happen to be about women artists who struggle to create in worlds warped by ideologies that privilege men.
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May 6, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Heidi Reimer
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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May 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Heidi Reimer
I was writing a novel about a woman with a terrible mother when I became a mother myself. In stolen early morning sessions, I read my baggy first draft and made notes on everything that wasn’t working. In endless hours with a baby, a toddler, and never-finished housework, I pondered how to fix it. The connection to my writing and my creative self was a lifeline in my alien new role as a mother, but the challenges of carving out time and mental energy to write a novel also intensified my overwhelm.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
nyjournalofbooks.com | Heidi Reimer
"an enthralling and believable story."This debut novel bravely digs into the conflicted relationship between a mother and daughter—the actress and feminist icon Sadie Jones and her estranged daughter, Jude, now an actress in her own right. In alternating narratives spanning nearly three decades, The Mother Act explores their different paths through anger, pain, rebellion, ambition, failure, betrayal, and love. It's an enthralling and believable story.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Heidi Reimer
Reading Lists Heidi Reimer, author of "The Mother Act," recommends nuanced stories that explore the complicated reasons behind mothers leaving their children Before I had children, I was fascinated by fictional depictions of daughters whose mothers had bailed. How were they shaped by this primal loss? How could any mother justify inflicting such damage? I became a mother myself, and suddenly my point of view shifted. I was still mindful of the ways our mothers’ choices form us, but I woke to...
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Heidi Reimer |G. T. Karber
Stars Jason Butler Harner (best known from Ozark, also next up in Ryan Murphy’s season 2 of Monster for Netflix playing Les Zoeller, the Beverly Hills PD detective in charge of the Menendez brothers case as well as currently on the new Colin Farrell show SUGAR on Apple+The film has a unique mix of reality and fiction, as Director-writer Brett Wagner based The Big Bend on an incident in which one of his children (who also stars in the film) was briefly lost in the national park.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Elle Marr |Heidi Reimer |G. T. Karber |Kellye Garrett
The book is in stores on May 1st. To purchase a copy click on the link. https://amzn.to/3uEBtIL Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family’s Cessna crash-landed in the Washington wilderness, claiming the lives of their parents. For twelve harrowing weeks, the girls fended for themselves before being rescued.
Twenty-five years later, they’re still trying to move on from the trauma.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Eve Chung |Heidi Reimer |G. T. Karber |Kellye Garrett
The book is in stores on Tuesday, May 7th from Berkley. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3Q5co1sDaughters are the Ang family’s curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters.
