KINSHIP THEORY
Hester Kaplan
£6.99
'A story that gives an extraordinary twist to the concept of mother-daughter love'
Elizabeth Strout
'Maggie forced herself to look again, to acknowledge the scampering of cells inside her womb, and now a picture began to fall into place, like distant forms appearing ina fog. A watery whooshing sound filled the room. For a stunning moment Maggie and the baby lived in the centre of the world. She knew this was the single transforming sensation of a lifetime, unlike anything else'
At forty-seven, Maggie Crown has agreed to bear a child for her daughter Dale, who was born without a uterus. Maggie believes the pregnancy will draw them closer together, but the strain of carrying a baby that is 'hers to love, but never to keep' proves more difficult than anticipated. Maggie's relationship with Dale is thrown into sharp and often painful focus as she is forced into a course of action that she feels is necessary, and Dale sees as betrayal..
Hester Kaplan
lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and two sons. Her short stories have appeared in best American Short Stories 1998 and 1999. Her first collection, The Edge of Marriage, was critically acclaimed and won the Flannery O'Connor award for Short Fiction..