Missing Mom - Joyce Carol Oates • BookLikes (ISBN:0739468367)

Missing Mom

by: Joyce Carol Oates (author)

ISBN: 9780739468364 (0739468367)

Edition language: English

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Classics, Novels, Literature, Book Club, American, Literary Fiction, Drama, Family, Contemporary, Death

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Ceilidh-Tripping the write fantastic rated it

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So, I've been off BL for a long, long time. A lot has happened, I got pregnant and had a daughter. My mom got sick and passed away. I had to clear out and sell my childhood home and all the contents while trying to balance all of that and my full time job. It's been...something. For a while, not l...

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Books as Furniture rated it

12 years ago

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I was emotionally invested in this reading (and listening experience), caught up in the upheaval of loss and recovery, as bewildered as the characters by the effects of grief, only to have all of that apparently minimized by a gift-wrapped, no-loose-ends conclusion. In this reading, I saw myself wi...

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Books etc. rated it

15 years ago

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I'm not sure I want to finish reading it. I just hate her voice.. I found myself kept on skipping parts just to rush it, so I took a peek on the ending and call it a day :(

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ellaminnowpea rated it

18 years ago

http://ellaminnowpea.booklikes.com ellaminnowpea 4.0

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This is admittedly not one of Oates' stronger novels. I enjoyed it, though, as someone who has lost her mother. As an exploration of grief, it was interesting; as a novel, it was just okay.

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