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All My Mother's Lovers

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That said, after she finds the letters, Maggie realizes perhaps she knew far less about her parents’ relationship than she thought.

This book pissed me off from start to finish and I am now on the hunt for something better to read to cleanse the palate so I don't have to end 2020 on such a sour note. The book never quite reconciles the Iris we understand within the familial unit of the Krause home with the woman Maggie learns about in talking to these men. Instead, she hits the road to hand-deliver these mysterious letters and learn more about her mother in the process. That last line was awful and the fact her father's asexuality and their open relationship status being kept to the end was a fucking cop-out. Ilana Masad delivers a strong debut focused on the complexities of relationships, queerness, and gender.The novel offers readers a nuanced, fully realized protagonist struggling to come to terms with death, her transition to adulthood, and the leap of faith required to let people in. From Iris’s vantage point, we see her as a young woman married to an abusive rabbi, as a happy new mother with her second husband, and Maggie’s father, Peter. She goes off on this wild goose chase to find the men her mother left letters to, and when she finds them she’s abusive to them. In Maggie’s narrative, we are right alongside her as she begins to discover the woman her mother really was, rather than the woman Maggie thought she was.

There are many things for which All My Mother’s Lovers should be praised for, not least of which is its cast of dynamic, complicated queer characters whose relationship problems have nothing to do with how they identify. A] daughter’s journey to realizing her mother was also a woman, and a tender tribute to the power of forgiveness, understanding, and hope. this is a real quote):"He had radical politics, and while she challenged him occasionally on them, she never won an argument. I only have a little bit of my day to listen (versus no time to read), and with the nature of this particular plot (daughter of deceased mother finds letters to four strangers to be sent if she dies - there by creating a journey for the daughter to deliver these letters) made things a little repetitive.

Masad's work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Paris Review, NPR, BuzzFeed, Catapult, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as many others. I can't quite decide where I fall so I'm rounding up because this is a debut and I absolutely will read this author's next book. Where the novel kicks into gear is when Maggie finds, with her mother’s will, a collection of five sealed letters written by Iris with a request they “be sent out in the case of her untimely death. Daniel Fraser looks at the most recent translation of Chantal Akerman’s “My Mother Laughs” as a work about motherhood, illness, and language. year old Maggie Kraus has had a strained relationship with her mother Iris ever since she told her parents that she was lesbian.

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