A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch
Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood.
Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.
| ISBN: | 9780241293539 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2017 |
| Author: | Paul Theroux |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 528 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarchEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children.
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Mother Land was written by Paul Theroux and published by Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Mother Land has 528 pages