"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." -- Stephen King, New York Times Book Review To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work.
Mother Land is a bittersweet, brutally frank family saga that offers enough redemption to make the journey worth it." -- Shelf Awareness. . . "Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land ." -- Vanity Fair "An engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self .
While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.
Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent\'s narcissism impacts a family.
As she lives well past the age of one hundred, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages.
Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others.
She excels at playing her offspring against each other.
To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. "Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." -- Stephen King, New York Times Book Review To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work
