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Mother, Stranger

Mother, Stranger

Cris Beam
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Author Cris Beam left her mother’s home at age 14, driven out by a suburban household of hidden chaos and mental illness. Her mother, a distant relative of William Faulkner, told neighbors and family that her daughter had died. The two never saw each other again. Nearly twenty-five years later, after building her own family and happy home life, a lawyer called to say her mother was dead. In this story about the fragility of memory and the complexity of family, Beam decides to look back at her own dark history, and for the secret to her mother’s madness.
Language
English
Pages
42
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
The Atavist
Release
January 01, 2012

Mother, Stranger

Cris Beam
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Author Cris Beam left her mother’s home at age 14, driven out by a suburban household of hidden chaos and mental illness. Her mother, a distant relative of William Faulkner, told neighbors and family that her daughter had died. The two never saw each other again. Nearly twenty-five years later, after building her own family and happy home life, a lawyer called to say her mother was dead. In this story about the fragility of memory and the complexity of family, Beam decides to look back at her own dark history, and for the secret to her mother’s madness.
Language
English
Pages
42
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
The Atavist
Release
January 01, 2012

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