My first review for @fullstopmag.bsky.social, on this wildly inventive look into difficult mother daughter relationships, desire, the limits of language. I 💛 anything by Kate Briggs, but reading her translation of Hélène Bessette was especially exciting! @ndbooks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yc6bpxsa
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Lili Is Crying – Hélène Bessette
Absent mothers beget resentment or yearning in their daughters; overpresent mothers make their hearts fester.