MotherKind

From the greatly praised author of Machine Dreams and Shelter, a major new novel.

MotherKind is the story of Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child and the early months of a young marriage. She must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss. MotherKind is a delicately layered narrative in which the details of daily life resonate with import and meaning.

We enter Kate's present world of first and second families, babies and lively stepchildren, neighbors and friends, baby-sitters and wise strangers. Images of her not-so-long-ago past intermingle in a turning of the seasons marked by the gradual fading of her mother, the strong woman who has been her friend, her guiding star and her counterpart across a divide of experience and years.

MotherKind immerses us in a very contemporary situation, yet deals with timeless themes. Even as Kate's relationship with her mother embodies her childhood and adolescence in another place, she must decide what "home" is, and how to translate all she has come from into what she will carry forward. As her baby grows and her mother becomes increasingly ill, Kate realizes how inextricably linked we are, even in separation -- across generations, cultures, time; across death itself.

It is the triumph of MotherKind that Kate's complex experience of being -- and losing -- a mother is so deeply and luminously portrayed. more

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2006; And the point is.........; This book had great potential, but no point. There were so many loose ends. I guess that's like life, but it doesn't make for good reading. Ugh. Painful.; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-08-2002; Not recommended; Some fine things, sometimes very poetical but on the whole rather boring. Not much happen, no real development of character, no interesting insights. Some parts was extraordinarily boring especially the description of the marriage, it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-25-2002; A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND BIRTH AND LIVING; I didn't find this novel to be the easiest thing to read that I've picked up in the last few months -- but, that being said, I felt that the beauty of the language compelled me to finish it, once I had begun.Jayne Anne Phillips has taken...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-13-2002; Wonderful; America's greatest author triumphs again with this absolutely stunning new work. Returning to themes familiar to her many loyal readers, Phillips incontrovertibly demonstrates that no other author could find so many interesting ways to...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-25-2002; A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND BIRTH AND LIVING; I didn't find this novel to be the easiest thing to read that I've picked up in the last few months -- but, that being said, I felt that the beauty of the language compelled me to finish it, once I had begun.Jayne Anne Phillips has taken...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-31-2002; Didn't finish it; This is one of those books that I wanted to like more than I did. The characters are interesting and the sense of time and place are moving, but ultimately it didn't move me. I suggest people take it out of the library or buy a used copy...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-27-2006; And the point is.........; This book had great potential, but no point. There were so many loose ends. I guess that's like life, but it doesn't make for good reading. Ugh. Painful.; read full review | report as inappropriate