Mothers of Invention

By Parul Sehgal, Bookforum JUNE/JULY/AUG 2015 Since its beginnings, family has carried this strain of being bonded—and not just in body but in imagination. “In landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God,” says Ishmael, setting sail in Moby-Dick. On shore, we are to understand, our minds remain manacled, too absorbed with the hearthContinue reading “Mothers of Invention”