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Product details:
- Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
- Date of Publication 1 August 2022
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780268203023
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages150 pages
- Size 229x152x8 mm
- Weight 232 g
- Language English 433
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Long description:
In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women?s family lives.
What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, attempt to answer this question, heading straight for the messiness of domestic relationships and the constraints society places on women as they navigate their obligations. Daughters desert their rheumy-eyed elders in dusty museums, steal a mother?s favorite teacup, or consider throwing their dead parents? nostalgia-riddled belongings out the window. Mothers conclude that they love one child more than their others. Fathers puzzle over a wife?s inability to balance family and career or accuse a partner of blaming their child for her own misdeeds. Women mourn the children they decided not to have and fret over the legacy they?ll leave the children they do have. But sometimes the generations reconcile or siblings manage to rescue each other. Love tears these people apart, but it mends them too.
The emotions expressed in these stories are combustible, both fraught and nuanced, uncontrollable and common, but above all often ignored or hushed because we?re not supposed to be bored by our children or annoyed with our aged parents, even as we love them. The careful shapes of these stories adapted from fairy tales, verse, letters, or newspaper announcements, the surprise of their wordplay, and the blaze of their lyrical sentences allow them to dig into and contain all those messy emotions at the same time. In these works, constraint creates both understanding and fire.
"The economy and focus of Sonenberg?s prose allow the stories to punch above their weight in this slim volume. Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters is a beautiful collection of complex pieces which deserves and rewards prolonged consideration." ?Heavy Feather Review
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Childhood
2. Pink Seascape
3. Dark Season
4. Four Phoebes
5. Moon Child
6. Seventh
7. The Cathedral is a Mouth
8. Return of the Media Five
9. The Other Road
10. Painting Time
11. Hunters and Gatherers
12. The Arches, Our Home
13. Six Views of Seattle
14. Annunciation
15. Disintegration
16. Visitation
17. On Seeing the Skeleton of a Whale?.
18. Princess of Desire
19. Bad Mother: A Story in Five Paragraphs
20. Seven Little Stories about 1977
21. Last Week, New Year
22. Inebriate of Air
23. Forest
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