How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions
Coming May 2024 from West Virginia University Press
“…an incredible cross-cultural manifesto of word and body: What is home. What is mother. What is family. What is self. What is woman, and how do we story her.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and Verge
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and Verge
“Urgent, intense, and intimate, the stories in Sejal Shah’s How to Make Your Mother Cry conjure memories and stir the soul. A clever and beautifully crafted collection!”
—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“Each sentence is its own jewel box of pleasures and delights. Like works by Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, and Claudia Rankine, this groundbreaking collection will be a touchpoint for years and decades to come.”
—Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World and Feeding the Ghosts
—Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World and Feeding the Ghosts
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