AWW21 Mothers and Secrets - Katherine Tamiko Arguile and Victoria Hannan

In Katherine Tamiko Arguile’s beautifully melancholic The Things
She Owned , a visit from her cousin leads Erika to make sense of
her fraught relationship with her dead mother through a treasured
collection of artefacts and memories. In Victoria Hannan’s Kokomo
, Mina’s mother, Elaine, has secrets too, which draw Mina back
home from London on an urgent mission as Elaine ventures out of
the house for the first time since the death of her father twelve
years ago. These impressive debuts are moving and insightful
meditations on love, grief and the ties that bind.


Chaired by Kate Mildenhall