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Mother Land

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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.

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ISBN: 9780241293539
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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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