“Mother Love is the story of Katherine, Jude, and Louise, daughters of a woman recently deceased, a mother they view at best with mixed emotions. The mother they remember was eccentric, alcoholic, self-indulgent — yet they are tied to her, loving her, still feeling slightly guilty that she didn’t love them better. Their habit of telling stories about Mother is an effort to cement the relationship; and yet the stories always end, as Louise says, by being grotesque. . . . These are brittle people, carefully holding themselves in against further hurt, and the frequent razor-sharp exchanges between them are painfully accurate. . . . But between mothers and daughters and sisters there is a tie that binds. Candace Flynt shows us a special absolving kind of love.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Candace Flynt is the author of two previous novels, Chasing Dad and Sins of Omission. Mother of six and one of three sisters, she lives in her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, where she is completing two novels and writing plays.
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