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Another quality free ebook this month in the shape of Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh. The reviews look very good and I’m a sucker for short stories so this is now sitting somewhere in my to-read pile/cloud.

There are some more free ebooks from this publisher so I’ll post them shortly.

Maureen F. McHugh is the author of four acclaimed novels. Her genre-expanding short fiction has won the Hugo and Locus Awards and has frequently been included in Best of the Year anthologies. Since 1988 she has attracted a broad readership in publications such as Asimov’s, Scifiction, Starlight, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

Now, in her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

- A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother.
- A teenager is interviewed about her peer group’s attitudes toward sex and baby boomers.

- A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge.
- Anthropologists visiting an isolated outpost mission are threatened by nomadic raiders.

McHugh’s characters — her Alzheimers-afflicted parents or her smart and rebellious teenagers — are always recognizable: stubborn, human, and heartbreakingly real.