The Lauras / Sara Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Sara, 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Mothers--Fiction.

Mothers.

Dysfunctional families--Fiction.

Dysfunctional families.

Motherhood--Fiction.

Motherhood.

Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London William Heinemann 2016.

Summary:

I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong. As we made our way from Virginia to California, returning to the places where she'd lived as a child in foster care and as a teenager on the run, repaying debts and keeping promises, I learned who she was in her life-before-me and the secrets she had kept - even from herself. But when life on the road began to feel normal I couldn't forget the home we'd left behind, couldn't deny that, just like my mother, I too had unfinished business. This enigmatic pilgrimage takes them back to various stages of Alex's mother's life, each new state prompting stories and secrets.

ISBN:

9781785150777

1785150774

OCLC:

956633499