In six different stories, Chang shows the kaleidoscopic ways a mother’s love can manifest itself.These stories can be gut-wrenching, as in the tale... More

In six different stories, Chang shows the kaleidoscopic ways a mother’s love can manifest itself.These stories can be gut-wrenching, as in the tale of a woman with advanced cancer, on trial for smothering her handicapped son rather than abandoning him, or heart-breaking, as in the portrait of an elderly mother who lives alone after her husband dies and her children move out. These stories can be provocative, like the father who replaces his child’s dead mother by undergoing a transsexual operation, or meditative, like the mentally retarded woman who uses a blue balloon to help her pick up her daughter after school. These stories can also be revelatory, like when a six-year-old girl witnesses the birth of her new baby sibling, or adventurous, as when three children try to save their mother, who was mistakenly identified as a thief and arrested by the police. Chang hopes to tell these stories about mothers, and in holding fast to the universal values of motherly love, these stories will never lack for dramatic tension.  Close