Mothers

Mothers brings together stories featuring men and women trying to excavate their pasts and to make order out of their present - whether at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, or intoxicating Mexican weddings. Central to the collection is a triptych of stories about a woman calle [...]
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Mothers brings together stories featuring men and women trying to excavate their pasts and to make order out of their present - whether at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, or intoxicating Mexican weddings. Central to the collection is a triptych of stories about a woman called Eva, whose life radiates into the lives of others.Compared to Alice Munro and Peter Stamm, Chris Power's stories are already garlanded with praise from Jon McGregor and Yiyun Li. Readers are held hostage - blissfully - by the precision and craft found in a collection that is a work of both savage profundity and tender touch. They show a writer completely in control of his material and mark the start of what an extraordinary literary trajectory.