- Sociology, New York Times reviewed, Mothers and daughters, Biography
"In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and overwhelming.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Doubleday Canada, Finch Publishing
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525658610
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