Mothers and Daughters

300 short stories: story 256

Samantha Neugebauer

June 10, 2019

story: “Our Mothers Before Them” author: Jenny Zhang, who I stumbled upon at Shakespeare & Company last summer in Paris year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: From the NYer, “Sour Heart is a feminist bildungsroman—the narrators act upon their world just as much as the world acts upon them—and it depicts, from start to finish, a…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Jenny Zhang, long short story, Mothers and Daughters, Paris, shakespeare and Company, Sour Heart, UAE
300 short stories: story 247

Samantha Neugebauer

June 7, 2019

story: “Fire Horse” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Home, in bed note: I love this story, though I hesitate to call it one story. It feels like two stories about the same characters. Margaret Atwood has two stories like that in Bluebeard’s Egg, but she chose to split them into two titles and group…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, american literature, Bluebeard’s Egg, Chinese Literature, Fire Horse, Karen Shepard, Margaret Atwood, Mothers and Daughters, Short Stories, Siblings, UAE