Women are both mothers and daughters. This fundamental relationship is the subject of these twenty moving, loving, and insightful short stories.

Edited by Alberto Manguel

Contents:

• The Last Crop by Elizabeth Jolley
• A Mother in India by Sara Jeannette Duncan
• Lolita by Dorothy Parker
• The Pictures by Janet Frame
• Split Second by Daphne du Maurier
• Mrs. Benson by James Purdy
• Breath from the Sky by Carson McCullers
• Grean Earth Mother by Ai Bei
• Mama by Dorothy Allison
• A Pair of Glasses by Anna Maria Ortese
• Ashputtle: or, the Mother's Ghost by Angela Carter
• Rachel and Her Children by Frances Newman
• My Mother's Name by Hannes Meinkema
• Autre Temps... by Edith Wharton
• Her Mother's Daughter by William Trevor
• The Young Girl by Katherine Mansfield
• The Silent Traders by Yuko Tsushima
• A Wedge of Shade by Louise Erdrich
• The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker
• Women of Influence by Bonnie Burnard