Ellen Rado

Are there limits to motherly love? If they exist, who sets them? At what point does Mother’s love end and her control begin? Can we always call Mother’s control “love”? In “How to Love your Daughter,” Hila Blum liberally refers to Alice Munroe’s stories, especially “Runaway” - Blum’s book came out before the recent scandal with the open letter from Munroe’s youngest daughter. Blum’s novel is more nuanced and deep psychologically than Munroe’s story. Bloom masterfully intertwines the stories of Mother and Daughter; she leads the reader into the subtleties of love in the lives of three generations of women in one family. A great read. Ellen Rado