Description
After Gwen Eaton’s death, her wayward daughter Nikki is left to navigate grief, guilt, and the uneasy truths that surface in the year that follows. As Nikki slowly rediscovers her mother through fragments of memory and the lives Gwen kept hidden, she must also confront the complicated bonds she shares with her widowed, hard-pressed sister Clare and the people who orbit their family. With Oates’s sharp psychological realism and emotionally charged prose, the novel explores how loss reshapes identity—especially when love, resentment, and secrecy have always been intertwined. Blending intimate family drama with a suspenseful, forward-driving narrative, it asks what we really know about the people who raised us, and what it costs to learn the rest.
Available Editions
hardcover
Thorndike Press
Published May 10, 2006
680 pages
ISBN: 9780786285761
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Missing Mom by Joyce Carol Oates.