Familiar Monsters of the FloodFamiliar Monsters of the Flood is a tight, emotional, and stunning debut collection of poems. Tia McLennans mastery of metaphor and concise word choice packs a punch in these poems about intergenerational connection, motherhood, grief, ecology and memory. The poems in Familiar Monsters of the Flood speak to each other through an invisible connective tissue that weaves together dream space, loss, childhood memory, motherhood, the domestic gothic,