PositiveLIBERAlthough they’re rendered allusively in stripped-down prose, when taken together, these moments powerfully undermine easy understandings of family as safe haven and of motherhood as unfailingly nurturing. They underscore the ferocity of any struggle for separation, whether through birth, death, grief, or simply growing up, the rupture necessary for individuation ... Against this violence, language is a character all its own.
