My Real Mother

In My Real Mother, storyteller Tina N. Katamay explores the casualties of war, mental illness, and substance abuse, their effect on her family, and how abandonment, disappointments, failures, and the human condition nearly destroyed them all.

In this creative nonfiction, Tina weaves together true and fabricated stories, told to her by her "real" mother: the woman who gave birth to two children only to abandon them in pursuit of her own dreams.

Tina longed to understand who her real mother ...