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"The Lost Mother paints a nuanced portrait of small-town life....
Morris's characters are finely drawn, her dialogue rings true, and the epic sweep of her story telling draws apt comparison to Dickens & Steinbeck."--Orlando Sentinal
****It is the great depression. Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Henry & his 2 young children, Thomas & Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles to provide for his children but often must leave them alone as he travels the county in search of work. And while Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by their mother's desertion, refusing to tell them why she lfet or if she'll return. When Mrs. Phyllis Farley, a prosperous neighbor, begins to woo the children as companions for her strange housebound son, Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. Powerfully imagined and intensely felt, 'The Lost Mother' is a haunting masterwork and Mary McGarry Morris's strongest novel to date. |
