My Evil Mother

This is an Amazon Publishing short story, so it is available to read for free under Prime reading. It's been a while, but I am an Atwood stan, so I had to read immediately after stumbling upon it. 
To me, the title is based on the generic views of a teenage girl—arguably, any teenager (typically) feels the same at some point in their lives. Her mother claims to be anything but normal, or rather the neighborhood claims it for he...be it a potionist, or looney, or even a witch if you will. I loved the way Atwood handled this in such a short amount of time. Could her mother have actually been all of these things? Sure. Is any of it definite? No. 
If you have some time, I implore you to read this. This is all kinds of witty, funny, and loving. So many little tiny things will resonate with you from your parents. How they behave, talk, what they will do to protect you, how they'll allow themselves to be perceived. It made me miss my own mother, even with the title like ‘My Evil Mother'...mine is anything but “evil” FYI. 
A great, lyrical, poetic short story. Exactly what you should expect from Margaret Atwood. Personally a 5/5*

Loved this!

An interesting short narrative of a girl's view of her mother and the growth and changes in her perspective through time. I enjoyed how the ending showed an almost cyclical nature of parenthood. We all have certain criticisms and wishes of doing things a bit differently than our parents. We may not agree with everything they do, or did, and the older we grow, we find ourselves resembling them a lot more than we'd ever anticipated.

5:

So like, I am aware this is only 32 pages and it can be difficult to rate short stories but this is for damn sure a 5. I feel like I've been liberal with them, but on this one I'm certain.

Completely bonkers, and sweet. And funny. This is the first I've read of Margaret Atwood, and I'd been looking forward it for a while, and I was not disappointed. What incredible use of the language. She painted such a clear picture in my mind, it left me hungry.

I kinda wanna go hug my mom now.