Yona Zeldis McDonough
I want to tell you about my mother’s clothes.
Tag: mothers
The Object of Your Affections: What’s a Baby Between Friends?
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Falguni Kothari discusses her novel “The Object of My Affection” with Lilith Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough.
I Couldn’t Divorce My Mother-in-Law
Penny Jackson
I do not know if Ida knows my name. She does not remember that her son Gary left me ten years ago for a twenty-two year old nurse at his hospital. I have seen Ida more often than I have seen my ex-husband, who has moved to Anchorage, Alaska and now has two sons with his second wife.
Isolated Mothers, Searching for Miracles
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The reader knows by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son is autistic, but if anyone told her, she wouldn’t listen, because she doesn’t want to know—until at last Danny’s behavior becomes so strange even she can’t ignore it. After her son’s diagnosis, Mimi finds herself in a world nearly… Read more »