I Read Stories: The Storms by Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Storms by Sarah Thankam Mathews
After being flooded out in New York Kamala and her mother drive to Michigan. This is the story of their road trip.
The mother is an immigrant to America, her daughter born there. They have different ideas of what it is to be a woman. Kamala is large, her mother small. Kamala can’t drive, her mother gets tired after four hours so they stop a lot. They have both lost a husband.
Initially it seems like a familiar culture clash, generational conflict. But the differences come into focus, how both of them are dealing with grief in their own ways. And despite disagreeing almost everything they have this common ground and love and need one another.
Things won’t be alright. They never will. But life still needs to be lived.
Read This: A powerful, personal narrative about grief and change on many scales
Don’t Read This: If you aren’t interested in generational difference stories so a newish twist means nothing.
After being flooded out in New York Kamala and her mother drive to Michigan. This is the story of their road trip.
The mother is an immigrant to America, her daughter born there. They have different ideas of what it is to be a woman. Kamala is large, her mother small. Kamala can’t drive, her mother gets tired after four hours so they stop a lot. They have both lost a husband.
Initially it seems like a familiar culture clash, generational conflict. But the differences come into focus, how both of them are dealing with grief in their own ways. And despite disagreeing almost everything they have this common ground and love and need one another.
Things won’t be alright. They never will. But life still needs to be lived.
Read This: A powerful, personal narrative about grief and change on many scales
Don’t Read This: If you aren’t interested in generational difference stories so a newish twist means nothing.
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| Art by Senna Ahmad |
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