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Memorable Moms in fiction - Happy Mothers Day

Contributed by: Irma Sturgell   on 4/18/2006


Memorable moms... hmm. That could mean a mom we want to remember or one we spend our lives trying to forget. Literature gives us both. Here are few of my choices for memorable mom's in fiction

First up, Bunty, of George and Bunty in Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Ruby, whom we meet at the moment of conception, tells the tale of her life in middle class England from 1951 to 1970. You won't forget Bunty, but you will be glad she wasn't your mom. And, you won't forget Ruby whose character sees the world with that subtle British wit and wry humor we have come to love from our friends across the pond. Kate Atkinson has created a family saga that gives us plenty of back-story with her clever use of the much maligned footnote..

One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen, gives us another kind of mother, in this story of a daughter who puts her own life on hold to care for her mother in her battle with cancer. It takes us deep into this relationship and this family as it reveals many true things.

And finally, anything by Anne Tyler, who knows women and families. In Ladder of Years, we meet the escaping mom, The Amateur Marriage, gives us the"can't get it quite right" mom, and with Breathing Lessons, we get to know the reflective mom. I love them all and if my days had 48 hours, I could read them all again before mother's day. What moms or mom books do you love?



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Irma Sturgell

Centennial , CO

Irma Sturgell has posted 19 blog entries and 3 comments since joining on 4/13/2006. Irma Sturgell 's average blog rating is 5.
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