Mother and I is a quiet, attentive work that moves between memoir, essay, and lyrical reflection.

Ianto Ware writes about care, illness, and the negotiations of family life with a restraint that allows ordinary moments—conversations, silences, routines—to accumulate emotional weight.

The book unfolds through fragments and observations, tracing the shifting relationship between a son and his mother as memory, vulnerability, and responsibility begin to rearrange the familiar shape of daily life.

Measured and thoughtful, Mother and I belongs to a contemporary strand of literary nonfiction concerned with care, attention, and the ethics of witnessing the people closest to us.