Good mothers don't

Title
  1. Good mothers don't / Laura Best.
Published by
  1. Halifax, NS : Vagrant Press, [2020]
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Best, Laura (Laura A.)

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Additional authors
  1. Jackson, Penelope, 1980-
Description
  1. 330 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in the Forties Settlement. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, wants to harm her children, wants to be stopped from harming her children. She doesn't sleep, becomes incoherent. Elizabeth is taken away. We rejoin her in 1975, "well" once again, living in a group home and desperately trying to fill in the enormous gaps electric shock therapy has left in her memory. She remembers five words from her past and knows they are significant, but their meaning is slippery and she can't grasp more. She knows that Jewel and Jacob are her children, though she can't picture their faces, and more than anything, she longs to find them and explain that she never meant to leave for so long. Shifting through time and points of view, acclaimed author Laura Best's first novel for adults allows us to see the ripple effects of mental illness and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century. Good Mothers Don't is a moving exploration of illness, memory, and how we fight for who we love."--
Alternative title
  1. Good mothers do not
Subject
  1. Mentally ill mothers > Fiction
  2. Mother and child > Fiction
  3. Memory > Fiction
  4. Memory
  5. Mentally ill mothers
  6. Mother and child
Genre/Form
  1. Domestic fiction.
  2. Fiction.
  3. Historical fiction.
Call number
  1. JFD 22-955
Note
  1. "Editor: Penelope Jackson"--Title page verso.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Issued also in electronic format.
Author
  1. Best, Laura (Laura A.), author.
Title
  1. Good mothers don't / Laura Best.
Publisher
  1. Halifax, NS : Vagrant Press, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Additional formats
  1. Issued also in electronic format.
Added author
  1. Jackson, Penelope, 1980- editor.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Best, Laura (Laura A.) Good mothers don't. Halifax, Nova Scotia : Vagrant Press, 2020 177108829X 9781771088299 (OCoLC)1134383182
ISBN
  1. 9781771088282 (softcover)
  2. 1771088281 (softcover)
Research call number
  1. JFD 22-955
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