“History has failed us, but no matter”
All tagged family
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
“this is a man’s lot. And what did I get? An embarrassment of daughters. A shame of sisters…Did they serve lunch politely and tirelessly? Did they both show modesty and dignity?"
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
“These past several months, Dad’s missed several classes, insisted on another professor’s parking spot, and wept in the lecture hall without apparent cause.
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
“Before I got married I believed love could do anything. I learned soon enough that it couldn’t bear the weight of four years without children.
The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal
“What would they think of her now, her old lefty student friends, coming back as a fertility tourist? Was she now the colonial memsahib? The benevolent bringer of bounty or the ruthless trader, smiling her way back home?”
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
“The underside piece of skull was colored blood, its flesh still holding onto strands of graying hair.”