Reluctant Mother, A
Fiction
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Honest, sometimes humorous and often tragic, Frida’s narrative tells a modern tale of a conflagration of deceit, adultery, regret and love.
Frida, and her husband Blake have chosen not to have children. Concentrating on her artistic career instead, Frida has mostly managed to accept this difficult decision while putting her own traumatic childhood behind her. That is, until a stranger knocks on their door with a child she insists is Blake’s daughter. From that moment on their fragile marriage, their lives are devastatingly changed forever.
Reviews
Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
“Plot twists galore, along with symbols (deer, and oh yes, those ravens); and multiple perspectives abound. It takes nearly to the novel’s end to truly unravel the many up-and-down turns this story takes. This is a book that’s bound to keep you guessing. But while you’re guessing, I’m betting that you’ll keep turning pages, just as I did, and that, when you get there, you won’t be disappointed in the least.” —The British Columbia Review
“A Reluctant Mother is mesmeric, wildly inventive, and hallucinatory. Sometimes hilarious. Frida, Dore's heroine, is fierce, hard-core, full of fire, with a moral compass just steady enough to navigate nightmares and heartbreak. Here's what it's like to be a mother — for those who can't, those who won't, and those who are — whether they're reluctant or not — giving it everything they've got.” —Lisa Moore, author of This is How We Love and February
Book Details
Pub Date: April 2024
Trade Paperback
350 Pages
Print ISBN 9781553807100
E-book ISBN 9781553807117
5” x 8”
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