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How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

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How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions in Franklin, TN

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2024/25 Story Prize Longlist
2024 Foreword Indies Finalist, Multicultural Adult Fiction
From the author of
This Is One Way to Dance
, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman searching for home.
In the eleven linked short stories of
How to Make Your Mother Cry
, Sejal Shāh builds a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. Keys, rocks, photographs, fairy tales, fables, and relics all add texture and meaning to an exploration of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman in a culture that excuses the behavior of men. Throughout, girls and women contend with the expectations, limitations, and challenges of becoming the heroine of one’s own life.
—Shāh’s follow-up to her award-winning essay collection
—continues the rich tradition of innovative feminist work by Claudia Rankine, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Maxine Hong Kingston. By braiding stories and images with fictional letters to a beloved English teacher, the collection defies traditional autofiction, epistolary, and short story conventions. These astonishing stories about friendship and love, resilience and survival establish Shāh as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.
2024/25 Story Prize Longlist
2024 Foreword Indies Finalist, Multicultural Adult Fiction
From the author of
This Is One Way to Dance
, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman searching for home.
In the eleven linked short stories of
How to Make Your Mother Cry
, Sejal Shāh builds a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. Keys, rocks, photographs, fairy tales, fables, and relics all add texture and meaning to an exploration of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman in a culture that excuses the behavior of men. Throughout, girls and women contend with the expectations, limitations, and challenges of becoming the heroine of one’s own life.
—Shāh’s follow-up to her award-winning essay collection
—continues the rich tradition of innovative feminist work by Claudia Rankine, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Maxine Hong Kingston. By braiding stories and images with fictional letters to a beloved English teacher, the collection defies traditional autofiction, epistolary, and short story conventions. These astonishing stories about friendship and love, resilience and survival establish Shāh as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.

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