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Bezig met laden... Mother In the Dark: A Novel (editie 2022)door Kayla Maiuri (Auteur)
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"A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. When Anna's sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn't return the call. She knows it's about their mother. Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna's childhood was sparse but comfortable-filled with homemade pasta sauce and a close-knit neighborhood. Anna and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature as she bounces between tenderness and bitterness. When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna's mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her expands until it threatens to explode. Her daughters, trapped with her in the new house, isolated, must do everything they can to keep her from unraveling. Alternating between childhood and a single weekend in Anna's twenties, in which she receives a shattering call about her mother and threatens to blow up her own precariously constructed new life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever really go back home when the idea of home was so unstable. Whether we can escape that instability or accept that our personalities are built around the defenses we put up. Maiuri is a master at revealing the fragile horrors of domestic family life and how the traumas of the past shape the present and generations of women. A story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters, Mother in the Dark delivers an unvarnished portrayal of a young woman consumed by her past and a family teetering on the edge of a knife"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading this book, but I certainly didn’t expect this type of story. It is one I’ve had to let swirl around in my head for a bit before my mind could land on a firm decision on how I felt about it.
This novel is moody, bleak, and melancholy, but it somehow takes hold of the reader, and demands your undivided attention, even when you desperately want an escape. It holds one in a vise grip, while you gasp for air in a nearly claustrophobic panic, but then it slowly releases the tension, so that you can feel the bitter cold, see and hear the birds, and then quite suddenly, the connections click into place, and then one is left to ponder the wonder of this journey.
This is a novel is a strong examination of family, mental illness, coping mechanisms, and mother/daughter/sister dynamics. It is compulsively readable, despite the weighty dramas, and the emotional conclusion leaves a very strong impression that will stick with you long after you turn that final page… ( )