![]() April O'Rourke is a haunting, haunted heroine. "MOTHERS AND LOVERS is an incendiary exploration of the stormy chemistry that emerges when the lives of strangers intersect. "MOTHERS AND LOVERS is expert on the way in which we know better but still find ourselves tumbling into shameful entanglements and foolish behavior, all in the name of those intensities that allow us to connect more fully to passion, and to dismantle and reassemble our lives."-Jim Shepard Flook's authority shimmers on every page as she exposes the contemporary matriarch's role and its taboo off branches-the childless career woman as imposter, and the mother, herself, as lover. This sweeping novel overturns sacred traditions and maps the scissoring boundary lines of family ties and carnal attraction. She is mesmerized by her young neighbor but his unorthodox bond with his mother has earth-shaking consequences for everyone. College professor April O'Rourke is in over her head when she moves next door to a family in trouble, including a teenage son, who has returned home from reform school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maria Flook, author of New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden, brings us another edgy, breezy-noir New England story. ![]()
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