Missing Mom

by Joyce Carol Oates

Genres: General Fiction; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

“This is the story of missing my mother. One day, in a way unique to you, it will be your story, too.” So begins Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates’ personal and candid novel.

Nikki Eaton, a single, thiry-one-year-old, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting young woman, never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet following the unexpected loss of her mother, her identity is transformed during the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that brings sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.

Release date: August 22, 2006

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Print pages: 464