 | Long Gone Anybody
Publication Date: September 1, 2004When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can t...
 |  | The Marriage Menders (G. K. Hall Romance)
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: G. K. Hall Romance Imogen's move to Taunton is an attempt to find a new lease of life for her sinking marriage. Perversely, as her husband repairs the house, she is obsessed with a man whose behaviour becomes increasingly irrational. Alarmed at her daughter's uncharacteristic behaviour, Nina starts investigating. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | The Keepsake
Publication Date: April 1997In hypnotic and mesmerizing language, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of lost love, the girl's father. Raised on deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is drawn into and begins to relive the real story of pain, abandonment, and the tyranny of desire. As her life spirals out of control, the tangled yarn of her mother's past begins to unravel, until finally she can come to tell a story that is her own. This luminous and disturbi...
| | Lithium for Medea (Contemporary American Fiction)
Release Date: October 1, 1989| Series: Contemporary American Fiction Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breat...
|  | Manual for Normal
Release Date: February 28, 2005Because life is more brilliant and more brutal than any of us imagined.Even before her mother's death, Lubba James was different. Now she's worse. She drowns herself in fairytales. Lets her imagination run away with her. Doesn't know how to mourn "appropriately."Driven made or driven to escape, Lubba isn't sure. But she knows she has to get away from her insufferable sister and overwhelmed father. Lubba begins her own quest to discover what "normal" looks like. And in reality, it's not very pretty.A burned-out copy and his hair-trigger sniffer dog. A homicide v...
|  | Listening to Billie
Release Date: December 12, 1977“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentat...
|  | Lost Daughters (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England A novel that turns the traditional adoption narrative on its head as it explores how lies move through generations. ...
|  | If Home Is a Place (Polestar First Fiction)
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|  | House Under Snow
Publication Date: July 23, 2002A first novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a storyof mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a fail...
|  | Keys to the Garden
Publication Date: December 2, 1999Widowed Martha Moreton was a devoted mother to her only child Lucy, and when Lucy married Len, Martha gradually came to terms with her marriage. This story explores the maternal bond of mother and daughter. ...
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