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    Mother In the Dark: A Novel
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    Mother In the Dark: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Mother In the Dark: A Novel

    Written by Kayla Maiuri

    Narrated by Holly Linneman and Thérèse Plummer

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    About this audiobook

    "Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto." —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me

    “A masterfully written novel, alive and lyrical, a hypnotic rendering of the mess and the tenderness of family life.”
    —Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
     
    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 an Italian American family in working-class Boston, Anna lives a simple but comfortable childhood--filled with homemade meals and front-porch gatherings in a close-knit neighborhood. She and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature. 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 ignites. Her daughters, isolated and trapped with her in their new house, do everything they can to keep her from unraveling.

    Alternating between Anna's childhood and her twenties, when she receives a shattering call about her mother that threatens to blow up her precariously constructed life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever return home when the idea of home is fraught with instability. This story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters delivers an unvarnished portrayal of the fragile horrors of domestic life and a young woman consumed by her past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Audio
    Release dateAug 9, 2022
    ISBN9780593584613
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      Mother in the Dark by Kayla Maiuri is a 2022 Riverhead Books publication.

      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…