Good Mothers Don't A Novel
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
06.04.2021
Verlag
Vagrant PressSeitenzahl
306 (Printausgabe)
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3251 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9781771088299
"The story of a woman in crisis and her quest, fifteen years later, to apologize to her children and fill in the blanks of her mind." -
The Globe and Mail
It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in Nova Scotia. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, wants to harm her children, wants to be stopped from harming her children. She doesn't sleep, becomes incoherent. Elizabeth is taken away.
We rejoin her in 1975, "well" once again, living in a group home and desperately trying to fill in the enormous gaps electric shock therapy has left in her memory. She remembers five words from her past and knows they are significant, but their meaning is slippery and she can't grasp more. She knows that Jewel and Jacob are her children, though she can't picture their faces, and more than anything, she longs to find them and explain that she never meant to leave for so long ...
Shifting through time and points of view, acclaimed author Laura Best's novel allows us to see the ripple effects of mental illness and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century.
Good Mothers Don'tis a moving exploration of illness, memory, and how we fight for who we love.
"Hypnotically beautiful ... An unlikely page turner replete with hushed surprises, unexpected crescendos, endless love and boundless vitality." -Christy Ann Conlin, bestselling author of
Watermark
The Globe and Mail
It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in Nova Scotia. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, wants to harm her children, wants to be stopped from harming her children. She doesn't sleep, becomes incoherent. Elizabeth is taken away.
We rejoin her in 1975, "well" once again, living in a group home and desperately trying to fill in the enormous gaps electric shock therapy has left in her memory. She remembers five words from her past and knows they are significant, but their meaning is slippery and she can't grasp more. She knows that Jewel and Jacob are her children, though she can't picture their faces, and more than anything, she longs to find them and explain that she never meant to leave for so long ...
Shifting through time and points of view, acclaimed author Laura Best's novel allows us to see the ripple effects of mental illness and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century.
Good Mothers Don'tis a moving exploration of illness, memory, and how we fight for who we love.
"Hypnotically beautiful ... An unlikely page turner replete with hushed surprises, unexpected crescendos, endless love and boundless vitality." -Christy Ann Conlin, bestselling author of
Watermark
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