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Mother Land

â€œTheroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.â€ â€” Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
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To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of one hundred, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parentâ€™s narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.
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â€œPaul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land.â€ â€” Vanity Fair
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â€œAn engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self . . . Mother Land is a bittersweet, brutally frank family saga that offers enough redemption to make the journey worth it.â€ â€” Shelf Awareness
Country USA
Manufacturer Mariner Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-09
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook