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Adding People to a Family Isn't a Minus - Reviewing the Math Around Stepmothers

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It's Mother's Day - and, while Linda considers how the mother is represented in several books (specifically Rachel Deustch (6:30), Boum (5:50; 6:55), and Mary Thaler (5:47), in their respective works, The Mother, Jellyfish, and Ulfhildr), she turns her attention to the figure of the stepmother, inspired in part by her conversation with the authors of La Belle-Mère/The Stepmother (L'Hexagone) by Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost (8:10) while she was at the Imagination Literary Festival (held at the Morrin Centre in Quebec City, 5:33).

Some promised links and other sources of discussion or references:

etymology of stepmother (in conversation with Maia Harris, 3:55)
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (Quebec Writers' Federation 7:58)
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and Great Expectations (1:07, 1:30)
Stepmothers and Grimm's fairy tales (3:03)

Host & Writer: Linda Morra; Associate Producer: Maia Harris; Music: Raphael Krux.

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