Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips

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)