My Evil Mother: A Short Story

My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood

Mother is "evil". She is a witch and controls her daughter in strange ways. She wont let her date a boy because she thinks he will die. (He does get involved with drugs a few years later and dies, but not related to the girl.) She tells her that her dad is now a garden gnome. (She believes it, but later finds out her dad served time in prison due to his past alcoholism.) Eventually the girl grows up, gets married and has a daughter. Does witchery skip a generation? The story is well written, but a little hollow.