In self-contained stories that Marilyn French describes as honest without cynicism, loving without sentimentality, angry without bitterness, a woman helps her elderly mother grow old and die -- only to have her come back as a ghost, to settle all that she left out in life. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, this episodic novel returns us to Broner's inimitable fictional world.
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In self-contained stories that Marilyn French describes as honest without cynicism, loving without sentimentality, angry without bitterness, a woman helps her elderly mother grow old and die -- only to have her come back as a ghost, to settle all that she left out in life. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, this episodic novel returns us to Broner's inimitable fictional world.
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