Tag: mothers and daughters

Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.

Jillian Dunham traveled thousands of miles from home to get away from her grief. It found her anyway, in a stranger’s Bangkok apartment.

Five years after her mother’s death, while still grieving and suddenly middle-aged, Abby Mims turns to beauty products to cure what ails her.

Wendy McClure recounts how an old audio tape of holiday music becomes a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.

Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.

Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.

In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.

Of all the genes parents pass down and values they instill, how does one take hold so much stronger than the others?

In a new memoir, Sophia Shalmiyev attempts to reunite with her missing mother through scraps, signs, and surrogates.

Gabriela Garcia’s short story about a women fighting a cold war with her new neighbor is deeply political without explicitly being about politics at all.

For one young immigrant, growing up Iranian in New York City meant raising herself.

A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.