For other works by Olsen, please see: Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974), Silences (1978), Mothers to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: Mothers on Mothering: A Daybook and Reader (1989), Mothers & Daughters: That Special Quality: An Exploration in Photographs with Estelle Jussim (1995), The Riddle of Life And Death with Leo Tolstoy (2007) and Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I and Other Works (2013).
For thematically relevant work by other women authors: Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley, The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, My Baby First Birthday by Jenny Zhang, and Obasan by Joy Kogawa.
For writers whose lives and writing were highlighted as having touched Olsen...