Gwendolyn Kiste's "Your Mother's Love is an Apocalypse

Mothers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are good, caring, and loving. And some are a bit more complicated. Sometimes it feels like a mother can be out to absolutely destroy your world–the mother at the heart of Gwendolyn Kiste’s story “Your Mother’s Love is an Apocalypse” (from the Mother Knows Best anthology) is of the latter ilk. Kiste explores the difficult mother-daughter relationship and asks the question: when does the responsibility of the daughter to take care of the mother end? 

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Recommended in this episode: Simone St. James’s Murder Road and the anthology Mother Knows Best (which includes the story “Your Mother’s Love is an Apocalypse”) 

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