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title = " Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories - Maureen F. McHugh"
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date = 2020-03-28
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8157780-mothers-other-monsters):
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In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and
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technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she
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illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and
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unexpected chasms that open between generations.
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I now there are stories with a hidden subject, like "Arrival", in which the
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fact that understanding how the alien language works allow humans to break the
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barriers of time, and one could expect that stories with no eminent subject
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actually have a hidden one.
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But I feel that doesn't happen here.
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There are just... stories. And, sad to say, they are not even good.
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There are points that never lead to anywhere, and doesn't seem related to the
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main history; most of them end with no conclusion at all (will the clone die?
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What will happen to the daredevil? Do the husband got cured from Alzheimer and
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would he still be in love with his wife?)
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