Tears Make a Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories by Korir, Michelle Chepchumba
Absent fathers. Critical mothers. Abusive marriages. Body insecurities. Young love. And ever, expectations.
To be a daughter is to be defined by the role, to be the glue holding together the family unit. It is to learn that our world is simultaneously dependent on and devaluing of women’s hearts and bodies. It is to be at once soft and strong, always.
Our parents’ voices follow us wherever we go, for better and for worse. As we come into our own, we make a choice about where they end and we begin. Set in variations of the Kenyan home, the 12 short stories in this collection explore how the tensions of the parent-daughter relationship make and unmake a woman.
Quietly, these short stories from Kenya ask: how does a daughter love both herself and those who raised her when their ideas about what makes a life are in conflict? Perhaps, for one grappling with the experience of being young, female, African, and layered, in this question lies the path to forgiveness—and wholeness.
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Absent fathers. Critical mothers. Abusive marriages. Body insecurities. Young love. And ever, expectations.
To be a daughter is to be defined by the role, to be the glue holding together the family unit. It is to learn that our world is simultaneously dependent on and devaluing of women’s hearts and bodies. It is to be at once soft and strong, always.
Our parents’ voices follow us wherever we go, for better and for worse. As we come into our own, we make a choice about where they end and we begin. Set in variations of the Kenyan home, the 12 short stories in this collection explore how the tensions of the parent-daughter relationship make and unmake a woman.
Quietly, these short stories from Kenya ask: how does a daughter love both herself and those who raised her when their ideas about what makes a life are in conflict? Perhaps, for one grappling with the experience of being young, female, African, and layered, in this question lies the path to forgiveness—and wholeness.
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