Missing mom : a novelbyJoyce Carol Oates

Mission Mom (2005) is a novel from Joyce Carol Oates. The book is a tale of how a woman recovers from murder of her mother,

The book is somewhat personal to Oates. In an interview, Joyce Carol Oates stated "When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother, Caroline Oates, had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover. This "worst nightmare" is an experience I needed to objectify in a way that could be communicated dramatically".


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Product Description
Last time

Last time you see someone and you don't know it will be the last time. And all that you know now, if only you'd known then. But you didn't know, and now it's too late. And you tell yourself How could I have known, I could not have known.

You tell yourself.

This is my story of missing my mother. One day, in a way unique to you, it will be your story, too.

From Joyce Carol Oates comes this candid, intimate, engaging, and personal new novel.

Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.