The Last Story of Mina Lee
By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Mina Lee is a story about mothers/daughters, the immigrant experience, extreme grief, disconnection and regret.
So it is a bit of a bummer really.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Tag: mother daughter relationships
Family Curses & Life Lessons with Alaine
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
By: Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
Dear Haiti is about a girl who gets herself into quite a bit of trouble at school and winds up sent to Haiti to do a work program in lieu of being expelled. Alaine’s parents are both from Haiti though she has scant knowledge of the place. Her mother, a world-renowned journalist is also in Haiti dealing with the fallout of a scandal.
Oh, there’s also a family curse Alaine needs to break.
Can You Always Trust Your Mother?
I Am Mother
Directed By: Grant Sputore
So I decided to give the Great British Bake-Off a rest (actually I was begged to give it a rest) and decided to check out some of the movies on Netflix right now.
Naturally I started with the one about the robot mother.
Black Magic & Bad Moms: The Price Guide to the Occult
The Price Guide to the Occult
By: Leslye Walton
Grade: A
Okay, this is definitely more witchy. Nor Blackburn lives with her grandmother on Anathema Island in the Pacific Northwest. Family roots on the island run deep and her great (many times) grandmother was the first witch on the island. When the locals burned down her home- she cursed the place.
Yet grandma Rona is actually pretty sweet compared to our main protagonist Nor’s mother Fern.
