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Also by Maureen F. McHugh:

China Mountain Zhang, February 2020
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After The Apocalypse, November 2011
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Mothers and Other Monsters, July 2005
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MOTHERS AND OTHER MONSTERS
By: Maureen F. McHugh

A collection of 13 stories about motherhood

Small Beer Press
July 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1931520135
Hardcover
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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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