![]() ![]() Some years ago, at a Chinese bile farm, a mother moon bear did something thought to be outside the realm of her animal nature. In Chinese medicine the moon bear’s bile is believed to remove heat from the body, curing tragic ailments of the liver and the eye. ![]() The moon bear is not just ancient and magnificent, it is also in possession of something treasured by humans. From the opening pages of its prologue, its transcendental mythologizing sets the stage and tone of the devastation that follows: It is a story that unfolds how trauma sinks into the bones and repeats itself, propagates, how it becomes parasitic. This is a book about trauma, intergenerational and colonial trauma, but it is also about the sacrificial monstrosity of motherhood. IN HER BRILLIANT, DEVASTATING second novel, What Lies Between Us, Nayomi Munaweera, winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for Asia, unfurls the most sacred of human bonds - motherhood - by creating a character who does the worst thing a mother can do: killing her own child. ![]()
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