Meet Samantha Schoech, author of My Mother’s Boyfriends on Sunday, July 6th at 6:30pm!
Samantha Schoech
About Samantha:
Samantha Schoech is a staff writer at NYT Wirecutter. Her debut book My Mother’s Boyfriends came out in 2025. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote “Simmering beneath the sharp wit … is an enduring empathy for the flawed people that make her stories come beautifully alive.” She lives in San Francisco but has been vacationing with her family in Bethany Beach for 25 years.
My Mother’s Boyfriends
A daughter witnesses her mother grow angels' wings. A mistress begins writing letters to her lover's wife. Thanks to a genealogy test, a middle-aged woman meets a sister she's never known, and they're very...different.
The 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories in My Mother's Boyfriends are populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for the mess-ups, bad choices, and missteps humans make despite their best intentions.
"Witty and utterly enchanting." -Vendela Vida, author of We Run the Tides
"My Mother's Boyfriends will both break your heart and make you smile. A dazzling set of short stories that touch on the most human of experiences; growing up, raising children, watching ailing parents, and aging. Each story is a gem full of warmth, insight and a touch of humor."
-Courtney Flynn, Trident Booksellers and Cafe