diff --git a/content/reviews/books/mothers-and-other-monsters.md b/content/reviews/books/mothers-and-other-monsters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fdf7af --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/mothers-and-other-monsters.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ ++++ +title = " Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories - Maureen F. McHugh" +date = 2020-03-28 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "fiction", "maureen f mchugh"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8157780-mothers-other-monsters): +In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and +technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she +illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and +unexpected chasms that open between generations. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +I now there are stories with a hidden subject, like "Arrival", in which the +fact that understanding how the alien language works allow humans to break the +barriers of time, and one could expect that stories with no eminent subject +actually have a hidden one. + +But I feel that doesn't happen here. + +There are just... stories. And, sad to say, they are not even good. + +There are points that never lead to anywhere, and doesn't seem related to the +main history; most of them end with no conclusion at all (will the clone die? +What will happen to the daredevil? Do the husband got cured from Alzheimer and +would he still be in love with his wife?)