Like A Real Book Club: Episode 7 - Learning to Love Complicated Mothers

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We meditate on the complexities of Caribbean motherhood - ladened with a history of patriarchal violence that has architected the tenuous, terrible and beautiful bonds we form with the matriarchs in our lives (and, of course, how these relationships are depicted in Caribbean literature). 

Book mentioned:
Learning To Breathe by Janice-Lynn Mather 
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn 
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn 
The Star Side of Birdhill by Naomi Jackson 
Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean by Olive Senior