Granny’s Woes
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Humorous tales about the difficulties young people face in finding a partner and the older generations’ misunderstanding of the new realities.
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Author: Hristina Koemdjieva
In today’s rapidly evolving world, the generational gap seems to be gaping with a frightening force. If once upon a time a grandmothers’ détente was whether the children had gulped down enough food for a whole troop, today the woes are different. Emancipated, independent and strong women are less and less likely to settle down, and this inevitably bothers many grandmothers who associate the 30th birthday with the family hearth.
It is such clashes of two generations between a grandmother and her granddaughter that the short stories in the collection Granny’s Woes present to us. There, the granddaughter is not as fashionable as one modern woman would like herself to be, and the grandmother is not as old-fashioned as would suit a grandmother, which gives rise to another, internal, seemingly hidden conflict – between the desire for freedom and familial duty. Both independent and headstrong women, both unable to fully fit into the roles that age assigns them, they engage in amusing verbal sparring to bring a dose of laughter to a real pressing issue – the difficulties young people face in finding a partner and the old generations’ misunderstanding of the new realities. It’s as if the grandmother has taken on her final mission in life – to find a man for her wayward granddaughter, and the granddaughter, though not having much against it, keeps resisting her grandmother.
Fresh humour oozes from the stories, mocking both the naivety of the young and the narrow-mindedness of the old. But behind the laughter, behind the exchanges of witty, often sharp retorts, we witness not only the meeting of two radically opposed understandings of personal happiness, but also of genuine concern, affection and love.
ISBN 978-954-796-097-8
Published: 2022
Page Count: 80 pp.
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