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MotherKind


A General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Family Drama,
  • Domestic Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Stories of new motherhood colliding with caring for aging parents
  • Layered family dynamics with stepchildren and shifting roles
  • Intimate portraits of women navigating loss and transformation
Publisher Description

A major novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch that depicts the life of a new wife and mother who must become a caregiver to her ailing mother, and confront profound loss alongside radiant beginnings.

Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new marriage complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young stepsons, she becomes caregiver to her ailing mother, the strong woman who has been her guiding star and counterpart across a divide of experience and time.

Jayne Anne Phillips transforms quotidian details into a shimmering whole, giving us Kate and her family in all the complexity their world offers.

Phillips' renowned skill at portraiture combines with her equally nuanced sense of narrative in this heartstrong and delicately layered novel.

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