{"product_id":"how-to-make-your-mother-cry-fictions-9781959000136","title":"How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSejal Shah's How to Make Your Mother Cry is a collection of linked short stories that explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman. The stories are braided with images and ephemera, creating a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. The collection defies traditional autofiction, epistolary, and short story conventions, and establishes Shah as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 31 May 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of This Is One Way to Dance, a collection of 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the eleven linked short stories of How to Make Your Mother Cry, Sejal Shah 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to Make Your Mother Cry --Shahs follow-up to her award-winning essay collection This Is One Way to Dance --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 genre-queer stories about friendship and love, resilience and survival establish Shah as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 286g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 210 x 140 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781959000136\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sejal Shah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46216355905786,"sku":"9781959000136","price":26.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1717924734639_book.jpg?v=1718106639","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/how-to-make-your-mother-cry-fictions-9781959000136","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}