Join us in celebrating the release of Maya Sonenberg’s new collection of stories, Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters, which answer, or at least ask, the question, What happens when the urge to ditch your family outpaces the desire to love them? Maya is a long-time professor of creative writing in the University of Washington English Department (and a long-time friend of Phinney Books), and her long-awaited new collection is the winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize. Some early readers compare the stories to Grimm’s fairy tales, and some to Clarice Lispector; Matt Bell says, “Maya Sonenberg has given me exactly the kind of gift I want from a collection of stories: precisely made, gorgeously rendered worlds, each so inventive that it suggests there’s always even more magic waiting beyond its margins.” Come join us.