![]() What drew you to explore the many variations of motherhood, daughterhood, and sisterhood? There are absent mothers, domineering mothers, sweet mothers, grandmothers as stand-in mothers, and “cold wars” between daughters and mothers. You write about miscarriage and the anxieties of pregnancy in the twenty-first century. Rumpus: Motherhood is perhaps the most significant theme in the book. How is one story propelling or expanding the reader’s understanding of another? ![]() These are cyclical stories, and in putting the collection together, I was interested in how each piece might be in conversation with those around it. Those are not small things, and what would happen if we, as readers, as critics, broadened our definition of what constitutes a link? There are certain words (besides milk, blood, or heat) that I think of as totems, that build resonance throughout the collection. A lot of times with short story collections, it seems people have trouble thinking of them as linked unless the characters are the same, and that leaves out all of the other points of immersion-why someone might be attracted to a particular book-like voice, place, mood, ideology. ![]() Milk, blood, and heat factor into almost every story, often in some form of ritual, like the blood-sisters oath in the title story or the moon festival in “An Almanac of Bones.” Do you think of this collection as an interconnected whole rather than a set of standalone stories?ĭantiel W. The Rumpus: I was impressed by the thematic coherence of this collection. I caught up with Moniz recently over email to discuss linked story collections, rituals, motherhood, spirituality, Florida, and the value of writing workshops. ![]() She lives in Northeast Florida, where most of the stories in her collection are set. Moniz is a Tin House Scholar and a recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction and the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminar the latter was where I met her in 2018. All of the stories here are boldly told and hum with tension. In “Feast,” she explores a woman’s alienation and grief following a miscarriage “The Hearts of Our Enemies” details a “cold war” between a shamed mother and her teenage daughter “Outside the Raft” dives deep into the darkness latent in the human heart. Moniz writes about family, marriage, class, loss, and race with wisdom and intensity, and her stories are rife with vivid images and sentences that can stand strikingly alone. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. Send us feedback about these examples.Dantiel W. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'condone.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, The Oakland Athletics do not condone such language. Nuggets picks: Who wins Game 5 of NBA Playoffs? - Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, West Virginia University does not condone the use of such language and takes such actions very seriously. Suns owner: Don't suspend Nuggets' Jokic for sideline shove Suns vs. 2023 The league can’t appear to condone what happened during Game 4. Shane Harris, Samuel Oakford And Chris Dehghanpoor, Anchorage Daily News, Handing down the sentences, Principal Magistrate Peter Law said the case is the first of its kind under the new law and the sentencing has to send a clear message that the law does not condone any violation. ![]() Leo Sands, Washington Post, The line between condoning violence and making light of it was slippery. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023 The Kremlin called on Western leaders to condemn comments by Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, who appeared to condone attacking Russian targets beyond Ukraine’s borders with lethal force. Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 6 June 2023 After ignoring, if not condoning, the riots, military brass had finally intervened and declared Los Angeles off limits to military personnel. Recent Examples on the Web So Council only has itself to blame when people decide to use channels that are not condoned by the powerful. ![]()
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