by Susan Schnur
From Silence to Speech
It is amazing how often LILITH receives, over the transom, manuscripts by daughters about their fathers. It’s a theme that, if we actually counted such things, probably appears far less than “Bubble and Me” does, but far more than “Mom and Me.” What’s more, most of these father stories speak, sad to say, of a wish: a wish that Dad be more communicative, a wish that Dad had been more supportive and proud, a wish that Dad was more capable of giving us love we could understand.
by Gail Todd
Gail Todd reconstructs her father’s lost world, cracking the silence a pogrom begat.
poetry by Shari Berkowitz
by Sarah Cooper
Sarah Cooper moves past a dad’s nastiness to understand that she can honor him and still be true to herself.
by Faye Kellerstein
Faye Kellerstein on how, despite sexist strictures, an Orthodox daughter becomes her father’s voice.
poetry by Susan Gross
poetry by Marcella Fleischman Pixley
poetry by Cassandra Sagan Bell