Mothers & Other Monsters

In its light, the long-awaited debut collection, award-winning writer Maureen F. McHugh, dry and delicately explores the impact of social and technological changes in the family. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children, and the expected and unexpected chasm that opened between the generations.
- A woman introduces her new lover of her late brother.
- A teenager interviewed about the relationship of her peers to have sex., And baby boomers
. - No marriage stepson sets the edge
- Anthropologists visit the isolated mission outpost threatened nomadic raiders.
symbols s McHugh in Alzheimers-sick parents or her smart and rebellious teenagers, always recognizable: stubborn man, and pathetic really.
This new paperback edition of added material for book clubs and reading groups, including an interview with the author, book club questions and suggestions, as well as reprints fabulous essay Morin, "wicked stepmother."