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    The Lost Mother
    The Lost Mother
    The Lost Mother
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Lost Mother

    Written by Mary McGarry Morris

    Narrated by Judith Ivey

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    The Lost Mother is the riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateFeb 17, 2005
    ISBN9781598871760
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    Mary McGarry Morris

    Mary McGarry Morris grew up in Vermont and now lives on the North Shore in Massachusetts. Her first novel, Vanished, was published in 1988 and was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. A Dangerous Woman (1991) was chosen by Time magazine as one of the “Five Best Novels of the Year” and was made into a motion picture starring Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Gabriel Byrne. Songs in Ordinary Time (1995) was an Oprah’s Book Club selection, which propelled it to the top of the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks, and it was adapted for a TV movie starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges. Morris’s other highly acclaimed works include the novels Fiona Range (2000), A Hole in the Universe (2004), The Lost Mother (2005), The Last Secret (2009), and Light from a Distant Star (2011), as well as the play MTL: The Insanity File.  

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    • 4/5
      This is the heartbreaking account told by 13 year old Thomas during the Depression era. He lives in Vermont in a tent in the woods with his dad and his younger sister Margaret after his mother leaves to "seek a better job elsewhere." A perfect example of how children interpret the mysteries of adults. With what little information his dad has told him as to why his mother left his innocence paints a different story than the truth and he is determined to find his mother, either to bring her home or to go live with her. Life for Thomas and his sister have not been easy while in their father's care who seems to be on a streak of bad luck. When they are informed their dad had to leave for temporary out-of-town job they are passed from house to house. At first they are happy at each place once they are warm and fed but each household reveals their skeleton and ultimately making it impossible for the children to stay. Mary McGarry Morris does a superb job in depicting Thomas's emotional, frustrating and painful experience as he finds his way to the truth. Definitely my favorite to date that I've read by this author. I would recommend this book for those who appreciate thoughtful reading. How I acquired this book: Barnes & Noble clearance shelfShelf Life: Approximately 3 years.
    • 3/5
      I'm going to throw in my two cents just because I'm so irritated with all the reviews that call this book "bad" because it is sad. They are not the same thing. If you don't like sad books, try to avoid them. But if sad books were automatically "bad," then that would make most of the world's great literature "bad." Literature is about the human condition, which is not always rainbows and lollipops.

      Now, to this book: it is not great literature. Not because it's sad, but because it's so implausible. This is the story of a family hit hard by the Great Depression. Mom walks out on Dad; Dad loses the house; family lives in a tent until winter, when the children are taken in and kicked out by various family members. Finally, the wealthy family behind all of Dad's troubles wants to adopt the adorable little sister -- but that goes south too.

      Finally, the children run off to find their mother -- who hands them off first to an orphanage, then to the hideous wealthy family. And who comes running in at the last possible second to save the day? Dad!!! THAT's the not-so-great part about this novel.

      So, if you would like a watered-down version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with a lot less historical color, feel free to read this highly sentimental novel. But please don't call it bad just because most of it is "sad."
    • 4/5
      I could not put this one down. It was so sad but a wonderful look at the characters life and what they went through. I loved following the children through all of their pain and seeing how it all turned out.

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    • 5/5
      This author writes so realistically, so eloquently really, about ordinary people, dysfunctional characters, and life that it's easy to lose yourself in her books. This story is about a family in the Great Depression, prominently about the children, a brother and sister. Their mother left them and many misfortunes befall the little family, among them terrible injustices. The reader "feels" this story through the characters. This is the second of Morris's books I have read. I'll read all of them eventually. She's an author of note, worth your time. Although this isn't suspense, there is plenty of it in the story.
    • 4/5
      great, wonderful reader. all characters very irritating, but an interesting portraiT OF LOVE. disappointed father doesn't know how to express his love. mother is so damaged she can't love. boy narrator is so angry he can't make good decisions.