Ten truths about mothers and daughters

Writer Jiang Fangzhou reads ten authors—including Annie Ernaux, Eileen Chang, Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, Elena Ferrante, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf—to examine intimacy, control, sacrifice, rebellion, and inheritance between women.

Understanding this first relationship of love can illuminate how we later relate to partners, friends, the world, and ourselves.