A young girl is entered into a beauty contest by her mother who hangs onto a memory of the girl winning a contest as a baby. She’s fixated on her doing this, but the contest doesn’t go as she planned. A glimpse into a mother daughter relationship that shows what drives a mother and how daughters will go to lengths to please them.
Author
Yoko Ogawa
Publication
The New Yorker, November 27, 2023
Date Read
November 25, 2023