![]() ![]() The woman who shares her bed with her baby has failed. The woman who picks up her child late knows from the teacher's cutting glance that she is a failure. ![]() The woman who screams for an epidural is a failure. The woman who is unable to breastfeed is a failure. There are failures of the body and failures of the heart. Always, there are a thousand ways to fail at this singularly important job. "But here's the secret: in America there are no good mothers. Ganga, the novel's narrator, is housed in a white cell painted an "industrial white." The Sri Lankan-born American immigrant has done something "unthinkable," an act that has made her the "worst thing possible," a bad mother. Watch your child like a hawk, and risk accusations of helicopter parenting.įor these reasons, the opening lines of What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera gripped my imagination. Let your child run wild in the woods or unchaperoned to the neighborhood market, and risk being arrested for neglect. Mothers, especially in America, can't seem to catch a break. ![]()
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