Summary

“Your Shoes” by Michèle Roberts takes the form of a letter of a mother towards her daughter who is fifteen years old. The daughter has run away from home, and the mother is extremely distressed while writing a letter she knows her daughter will never receive. The mother focuses on her daughter’s shoes, which remind her of past times. While writing the letter, the mother hopes that her daughter is somewhere safe, in a place where she is fed, not begging on the streets or sleeping with men for mon...