Mother Land
Theroux, Paul2018
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Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant - endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family - the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.
Main title:
Mother Land / Paul Theroux.
Author:
Theroux, Paul, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
509 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
ISBN:
9780141048789 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.54
Local class:
FICT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1086071