Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters

Awards:   Winner of Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Short Stories, Silver Medal 2022 (United States) Winner of Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction 2022
Author:   Maya Sonenberg
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN:  

9780268203023


Pages:   150
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Winner of Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award: Short Stories, Silver Medal 2022 (United States)
  • Winner of Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction 2022

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Author:   Maya Sonenberg
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint:   University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9780268203023


ISBN 10:   0268203024
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Childhood 2. Pink Seascape 3. Dark Season 4. Four Phoebes 5. Moon Child 6. Seventh 7. The Cathedral is a Mouth 8. Return of the Media Five 9. The Other Road 10. Painting Time 11. Hunters and Gatherers 12. The Arches, Our Home 13. Six Views of Seattle 14. Annunciation 15. Disintegration 16. Visitation 17. On Seeing the Skeleton of a Whale…. 18. Princess of Desire 19. Bad Mother: A Story in Five Paragraphs 20. Seven Little Stories about 1977 21. Last Week, New Year 22. Inebriate of Air 23. Forest Acknowledgements

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Maya Sonenberg's witchy and yet touchingly vulnerable characters bring to mind the 'bad' mothers and daughters of Lispector, tinted with shades of the Brothers Grimm. --Barbara Browning, author of The Gift The luminous sentences that comprise Maya Sonenberg's Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters house one surprise after another, never landing where the reader expects linguistically, narratologically, or existentially. They delineate quietly broken lives and unhurried regret in fictions that exist within beautiful clouds of ontological static. --Lance Olsen, author of Skin Elegies Written with humor and spirit, this lively assembly of protean fictions takes us from castle to carwash via an anxious activist, a frazzled painter, a pickle maker, an exemplary whale, and the always illuminating chimpanzee. --Rikki Ducornet, author of Trafik


The luminous sentences that comprise Maya Sonenberg's Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters house one surprise after another, never landing where the reader expects linguistically, narratologically, or existentially. They delineate quietly broken lives and unhurried regret in fictions that exist within beautiful clouds of ontological static. -Lance Olsen, author of Skin Elegies Written with humor and spirit, this lively assembly of protean fictions takes us from castle to carwash via an anxious activist, a frazzled painter, a pickle maker, an exemplary whale, and the always illuminating chimpanzee. -Rikki Ducornet, author of Trafik Maya Sonenberg's witchy and yet touchingly vulnerable characters bring to mind the 'bad' mothers and daughters of Lispector, tinted with shades of the Brothers Grimm. -Barbara Browning, author of The Gift Maya Sonenberg's contemporary tales are alive with the pulse of the mythic, and her fairy stories brim with all the light and longing of the everyday. These visions of mothers and daughters-broken, breaking, seeking, striving-stick in the mind even as they open the heart. What a powerful, gorgeous collection. -Jedediah Berry, author of The Manual of Detection I loved the stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters with my whole heart, thrilled by their intuitive leaps of imaginative logic, their celebrations of wonder and surprise, and their centering of the unbridled wildness of the mind. Maya Sonenberg has given me exactly the kind of gift I want from a collection of stories: precisely made, gorgeously rendered worlds, each so inventive that it suggests there's always even more magic waiting beyond its margins. I know I will visit these stories again, and that next time they will transport me even further into wonder. -Matt Bell, author of Appleseed Maya Sonenberg's Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters is a revelation of fairy tale and form. In gorgeous, clear prose, evoking a playful range of settings-seascape to castle to hospital room to Seattle landmark-Sonenberg irreverently questions the loaded roles of child and parent, of princess and witch, of caretaker and abandoner, all the while piercing the wonders of both our natural world and our labyrinthe hearts. -Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra and The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac


The luminous sentences that comprise Maya Sonenberg's Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters house one surprise after another, never landing where the reader expects linguistically, narratologically, or existentially. They delineate quietly broken lives and unhurried regret in fictions that exist within beautiful clouds of ontological static. -Lance Olsen, author of Skin Elegies Written with humor and spirit, this lively assembly of protean fictions takes us from castle to carwash via an anxious activist, a frazzled painter, a pickle maker, an exemplary whale, and the always illuminating chimpanzee. -Rikki Ducornet, author of Trafik Maya Sonenberg's witchy and yet touchingly vulnerable characters bring to mind the 'bad' mothers and daughters of Lispector, tinted with shades of the Brothers Grimm. -Barbara Browning, author of The Gift Maya Sonenberg's contemporary tales are alive with the pulse of the mythic, and her fairy stories brim with all the light and longing of the everyday. These visions of mothers and daughters-broken, breaking, seeking, striving-stick in the mind even as they open the heart. What a powerful, gorgeous collection. -Jedediah Berry, author of Manual of Detection I loved the stories in Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters with my whole heart, thrilled by their intuitive leaps of imaginative logic, their celebrations of wonder and surprise, and their centering of the unbridled wildness of the mind. Maya Sonenberg has given me exactly the kind of gift I want from a collection of stories: precisely made, gorgeously rendered worlds, each so inventive that it suggests there's always even more magic waiting beyond its margins. I know I will visit these stories again, and that next time they will transport me even farther into wonder. -Matt Bell, author of Appleseed


Author Information

Maya Sonenberg is professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Washington. Her previous collections of short stories include Cartographies (winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize) and Voices from the Blue Hotel. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, New Ohio Review, The Literarian, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere.

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