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Title: When Your Mother Doesn't
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Jill Kelly
Narrator: Jill Kelly PhD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A Revealing and Intimate Story of What a Mother Will - and Will Not - Do for Her Daughters
What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves?
Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she reluctantly raised. Now, prompted by the one father figure she respects, older daughter Frankie agrees to drive from Portland to visit her ailing mother, who abandoned the girls when they were in high school. When younger daughter Callie announces to Frankie that she's moving her fashion-model career to Los Angeles from the East Coast, Frankie badgers her sister into meeting up in the Idaho panhandle for a family reunion to dilute the impact of their mother's indifference.
However, on Frankie's first night on the road, the trip gets more complicated when a well-dressed elderly woman at a rest stop dumps a young boy in her lap with a request to take him on to Montana. And Callie's exit from Pittsburgh is fraught with its own shady and violent difficulties. Meanwhile Lola strengthens her resolve to keep the past and its secrets where they belong.
Members Reviews:
Hard to read at times but worth the trouble
It was difficult to read because it could have been about me as Frankie, although not exactly the same scenario, but very similar in the experience. It was reflective because it reminded me how many people face challenging relationships from early on in life... it's part of the deck we are dealt with. Most important to me was the way the author wove the mother's story so I was reminded that as unfortunate as Frankie's experience was with her mother, the mother had a story of her own. Frankie did nothing wrong, in fact she did a lot that was right. Very good read if you need some empowerment.
Sad, confusing story.
The characters and their situations are so sad and unsettling in this story. The way the story went between the present and past was confusing to me. It ended abruptly leaving me to wonder what happened to everyone. I kept looking for a little happiness but that was not to be for these characters.
A compelling story for the people we get to know, for the sum of their lives.
The story unfolded slowly, but the first chapter had engaged me and I kept reading to find out more. The characters drive the book more than the plot, and the past as much as the present. The true pleasure is in the gradual discovery of the lives and relationships of the main characters, a mother and two daughters. There are still questions hanging over them at the end of the book, and by then I was hoping that if I stuck around a while, I'd get to watch the little boy grow up, and the sisters figure out what to do with the secrets still tucked away in their flight bags.
True to life
Anyone who works in a social service field has seen the generational nature of abuse and neglect. I liked that this was a true to life depiction of the likely results. The ending is hopeful. I gave it 4 stars because it is a difficult subject to read about.
Fascinating
This book had so many twists and turns. Three women, a mom, a daughter and a pseudo daughter and the paths of their lives. It kept me interested all the way the. It was different than any other book I have read and I absolutely loved it.
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Title: When Your Mother Doesn't
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Jill Kelly
Narrator: Jill Kelly PhD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A Revealing and Intimate Story of What a Mother Will - and Will Not - Do for Her Daughters
What kind of women do daughters become when their fathers are missing and their mothers can't love them? How do they find love and ways to love themselves?
Nearly three decades of secrets lie between Lola Ashby and the two girls she reluctantly raised. Now, prompted by the one father figure she respects, older daughter Frankie agrees to drive from Portland to visit her ailing mother, who abandoned the girls when they were in high school. When younger daughter Callie announces to Frankie that she's moving her fashion-model career to Los Angeles from the East Coast, Frankie badgers her sister into meeting up in the Idaho panhandle for a family reunion to dilute the impact of their mother's indifference.
However, on Frankie's first night on the road, the trip gets more complicated when a well-dressed elderly woman at a rest stop dumps a young boy in her lap with a request to take him on to Montana. And Callie's exit from Pittsburgh is fraught with its own shady and violent difficulties. Meanwhile Lola strengthens her resolve to keep the past and its secrets where they belong.
Members Reviews:
Hard to read at times but worth the trouble
It was difficult to read because it could have been about me as Frankie, although not exactly the same scenario, but very similar in the experience. It was reflective because it reminded me how many people face challenging relationships from early on in life... it's part of the deck we are dealt with. Most important to me was the way the author wove the mother's story so I was reminded that as unfortunate as Frankie's experience was with her mother, the mother had a story of her own. Frankie did nothing wrong, in fact she did a lot that was right. Very good read if you need some empowerment.
Sad, confusing story.
The characters and their situations are so sad and unsettling in this story. The way the story went between the present and past was confusing to me. It ended abruptly leaving me to wonder what happened to everyone. I kept looking for a little happiness but that was not to be for these characters.
A compelling story for the people we get to know, for the sum of their lives.
The story unfolded slowly, but the first chapter had engaged me and I kept reading to find out more. The characters drive the book more than the plot, and the past as much as the present. The true pleasure is in the gradual discovery of the lives and relationships of the main characters, a mother and two daughters. There are still questions hanging over them at the end of the book, and by then I was hoping that if I stuck around a while, I'd get to watch the little boy grow up, and the sisters figure out what to do with the secrets still tucked away in their flight bags.
True to life
Anyone who works in a social service field has seen the generational nature of abuse and neglect. I liked that this was a true to life depiction of the likely results. The ending is hopeful. I gave it 4 stars because it is a difficult subject to read about.
Fascinating
This book had so many twists and turns. Three women, a mom, a daughter and a pseudo daughter and the paths of their lives. It kept me interested all the way the. It was different than any other book I have read and I absolutely loved it.