{"product_id":"places-to-look-for-a-mother","title":"Places to Look for a Mother","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePlaces to Look for a Mother\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNicole Stansbury\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780786711772\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCarroll \u0026amp; Graf Pub\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eShes Miriam Taylor, Lucy and Jen Taylors mother, and until the divorce, Bob Taylors wife. A force of nature. To know her is to love her, to love her is to hate her. Shes a woman who changes her name according to the ethnic flavor of the month, dabbles in Mormonism, and steals cleaning supplies from restaurant bathrooms. She is beautiful, excitable, contradiction as art form. Shes the kind of mom who reads her daughters diary, serves ketchup soup for dinner, and drags her girls from Utah to California to Wyoming in pursuit of one loser boyfriend after another. Her love for her daughters is fierce, smothering, neglectful. There is no other way than her. Does that sound extravagant? Or should I say there is no other place than her, observes Lucy, the endearing narrator of Nicole Stansburys very special debut novel, Places to Look for a Mother. In the tradition of Mona Simpsons Anywhere But Here and Larry McMurtrys Terms of Endearment, Places to Look for a Mother tells a tale of mostly maddening mother-daughter bonds. Forgiveness is always there, but its hard to find. And the Taylor family usually loses it. With lithe prose, pitch-perfect dialogue, and gloriously real characters, author Nicole Stansbury conjures a family that proves Tolstoy right once again: All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The Taylors are no exception, but Places to Look for a Mother is an exceptionally good novel.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Carroll \u0026 Graf Pub","offers":[{"title":"Places to Look for a Mother | Nicole Stansbury | Paperback | 9780786711772 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks B 1777812","offer_id":49765899665560,"sku":"1777812","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51YDQBZ5FRL.jpg?v=1787972008","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/places-to-look-for-a-mother","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}