Book review: Mothers and other monsters

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+title = " Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories - Maureen F. McHugh"
+date = 2020-03-28
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+[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.
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+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.
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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
+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?)