A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts.
“Rachel Zucker writes about an impossible subject with impressive clarity, lightness, accuracy, and beauty.
Granta celebrates mothers.
Ranging from remote English moors to an ancient Swedish burial ground to a hedonistic Mexican wedding, the stories in Mothers lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love, and abandonment.
Paintings by Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, H. Mariott Paget, Ben Shahn, Marc Chagal, Mary Cassatt, William Sargent Kendall, August Renoir, Marta Sanchez, and Berthe Morisot are accompanied by tender quotations in poetry and prose.