Mothers and Other Strangers Tiger Van Books treacheries

treacheries

author of Walking Papers

"the romantic debut we have been waiting for"–Patti Callahan Henry

By all rights

As Mike Bender puts it: would you rather fly in an airplane that was built by engineers who understood the principles of lift and acceleration

Mothers and Other Strangers Tiger Van Books treacheries"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead mans child, she accepted."Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child, Elsie, an inheritance of debts and mysteries. While coping with threats that she suspects are coming from the cult like spiritual program her mother belonged