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Issue 82 |
Fall 2000

Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips

by Staff

Jayne Anne Phillips,
Motherkind, a novel: With radiant prose, Phillips's long-awaited new novel portrays thirty-year-old Kate Tateman as she cares for her dying Appalachian mother in Boston while Kate bumps through the birth of her first child and her new marriage. In a single year, she must reconcile profound beginnings and endings. (Knopf)