{"product_id":"bad-mothers-bad-daughters-9780268203023","title":"Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women's family lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? The stories in \u003ci\u003eBad Mothers, Bad Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268203023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Maya Sonenberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42183776534709,"sku":"9780268203023","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f2f55ffe-484e-49ff-b5c4-b4b85a3b98a3.jpg?v=1654570794","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bad-mothers-bad-daughters-9780268203023","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}