Mama's Still Dead - Couverture souple

Keller, Anne Davidson

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798995902003

Editeur : Rocky Dell Press, 2026

Synopsis

BookLife: Editor's Pick!
Takeaway: Compelling reminder that love is greater than life's messes. Great for fans of: Catherine Newman's Sandwich.

Some women call their mothers in a crisis. Lily Corcoran calls hers from the dead.

Forty years old, separated, drowning in an unfinished neuroscience PhD, and raising a freaked-out ten-year-old whose father treats their custody schedule like a loose suggestion—Lily’s life is in spectacular collapse. Her survival strategy: Overwork, Snickers, and boxed cabernet that isn’t going to drink itself.

When Mama materializes, Lily’s first thought isn’t miracle. It’s brain tumor. But Mama is absolutely, inconveniently real. Lily introduces her as long-lost Cousin Trish and wildly hopes for the best. Mama folds laundry. She bakes lasagna. She has opinions. And shoulder pads.

Heartbreak and hilarity ensue: a ghost mother with catastrophic romantic strategies from 1989, a daughter white-knuckling her way through separation, a dissertation committee member who should be reported to HR, and a little girl who takes to her dead grandmother like a magnet to a fridge.

Underneath the chaos is a daughter who lost her mother too young and has never stopped needing her. And a secret about Mama’s death that nobody’s been brave enough to tell her.

Mama’s Still Dead is a witty, fierce, and unexpectedly moving novel about the mothers we lose, the messes we make, and the stubborn, glorious work of becoming the woman we want to be.

Anne Davidson Keller is the author of Empty Chairs. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne Davidson Keller is the author of "Empty Chairs," which was read aloud in 2018 on Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter-A-Day, a program continuous since 1937.Born and raised in North Carolina, Anne's education and background are in psychology and clinical social work. Her career in psychotherapy fostered an innate fascination with individual character and family relationships, and has deepened her empathy for the wide range of human experience. She has spent her adult life with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rocky Dell Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798995902003
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible