TY  - BOOK
AU  - Theroux,Paul 
TI  - MOTHER LAND
SN  - 9780241293539
U1  - F 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Black humor
KW  - Mother and child -- Fiction
KW  - Matriarchy -- Fiction
N1  - 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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