Family matters.

Matters Familiar by E.G. Fabricant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love me a good collection of short stories, and that is what E.G. Fabricant has given us in MATTERS FAMILIAR.

A collection of 12 contemporary stories, each exploring an aspect of family relationships. This anthology gives us glimpses of the different ways we parent - Fabricant dishes up, in one tale a helicopter parent whose very attention threatens to stifle her child's development, in another he gives us a mother too paralysed by loss and fear to provide any meaningful emotional structure to her son. We explore the relationships between siblings and cousins, between friends and team-mates.

This is an anthology dedicated to the ties that bind, holding a mirror up to the way we live our lives and the people with whom we populate them - some by choice, others through the obligations of blood.

I enjoyed this collection very much. Thank you.

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