Motherland

Motherland is a spare and unflinching meditation on love, memory, and loss. In fragments of prose, haiku, and lyrical poems, Margaret Kogan carries readers into the intimate terrain of a daughter witnessing her mother's decline and death. These pieces trace the contours of a life-domestic rituals, perfumes and lipsticks, family stories told and retold-alongside the stark realities of aging, illness, and absence.

What emerges is both the portrait of one woman and the mirror of a relationship: mother and daughter bound across time, distance, and silence. With language that is tender but unsentimental, Motherland invites us to sit with love and grief, memory and forgetting, anger and forgiveness.

At once deeply personal and universally resonant, this collection asks what it means to carry the presence of those we have lost, and how they remain with us in our reflections, our stories, our bodies, and the landscapes of our everyday lives.