#788 Near of Kin- Octavia Butler
A young woman deals with the death of her mother. She was given up by her mother immediately and raised by her grandmother. While her mother was sometimes around, she was not involved nor close saying that she was unfit to be a mother.
“I believed what I said before—that she had wanted a child to prove she was woman enough to have one. Once she had the proof, she went on to other things."
The girls uncle was her closest relative and now helps her sort through her mother’s belongings and her own feelings of resentment and hurt. She finally confronts the truth she has unraveled about who her father really is. Butler calls this story a “Sympathetic story about incest.” That it is for good and bad.
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