Confession: I can’t get enough mother-son relationship books. I mean it, too. If every text I read contained some kind of mother-son crisis, friendship, or adventure, it wouldn’t get old. These stories are surely not unusual. Some of the most celebrated pieces of literature revolve around mother-son bonds. For example, Emma Donoghue’s Room, John Kennedy…
Bradley Sides is a contributing writer at
Electric Literature. His reviews appear at
Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and
Tupelo Quarterly. His recent fiction appears at
The Airgonaut, BULL, Fluland, Ghost Parachute, Literary Orphans, Rose Red Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Florence, Alabama, with his wife, and he is at work on his debut collection of short stories.