Wicked girl / Isabel Allende -- Consuelo's letter / Julia Alvarez -- Significant moments in the life of my mother / Margaret Atwood -- The allies / Katherine Dunn -- Cleaning up / Mary Gordon -- La Lloradora / Lois Gould -- An ordinary woman / Bette Greene -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Solitude / Ursula K. Le Guin -- How to talk to your mother (notes) -- Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor -- A rose in the heart of New York / Edna O'Brien -- Mousetrap / Jane Shapiro -- Up above Diamond City / Martha Soukup -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Death Mother / Joyce Carol Oates -- Everything old is new again / Janet Berliner.