In this beautifully compiled collection of stories about mothers and daughters the world over, pleasure and sadness, devotion and ambivalence, curiosity and bewilderment mix--just as they do in life.
Colette, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson, Michelene Wandor, Dina Mehta, Emily Prager, Jane Gardam, Alison Fell, Jamaica Kincaid, Sue Miller, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ama Ata Aidoo, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Fay Zwicky, Efua Sutherland, Fay Weldon, Dikken Zwilgmeyer, George Egerton, Janet Frame, Alice Munro, Judith Chernaik, Jan Clausen, Katherine Mansfield, Zhang Jie