There’s much that doesn’t get said about mothering and much that’s been said a million times, and then there’s Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Who Will Greet You at Home.” First published in The New Yorker, it’s ravishingly original—the sort of fiction that picks you up and puts you down in another place. A fable about mothers and children, and the emotional and practical costs of mother love, it unfolds in a series... read more on 4Columns.org
—Julie Phillips
The Baby on the Fire Escape
