Motherland's canvas
By fern | General, Motherland, On Writing
"Black Painting" by Stephanie Serpick (sserpick.com) A local book club selected Motherland as this month's featured work and invited me to participate in the group's discussion today. Each reader found her own way of relating to the story. One woman talked about how her mother was raised by adoptive parents who were alcoholics. (Her biological parents died when the girl was five.) "My mother didn't really know how to be ...