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A collection of 13 stories about motherhood
Small Beer Press
July 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1931520135
Hardcover
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Fiction
Maureen F. McHugh is the author of four acclaimed novels.
Her genre-expanding short fiction has won the Hugo and Locus
Awards and has frequently been included in Best of the Year
anthologies. Since 1988 she has attracted a broad readership
in publications such as Asimov's, Scifiction, Starlight, The
Year's Best Science Fiction, and The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror. Now, in her luminous, long-awaited debut collection,
award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and
delicately examines the impacts of social and technological
shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple
prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and
children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open
between generations. - A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother.
- A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's
attitudes toward sex and baby boomers. - A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge.
- Anthropologists visiting an isolated outpost mission
are threatened by nomadic raiders. McHugh's characters -- her Alzheimers-afflicted parents or
her smart and rebellious teenagers -- are always
recognizable: stubborn, human, and heartbreakingly real.
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