Missing Mom
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| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 434 pp |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Missing Mom is a 2005 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates about the murder of a middle-aged widow.
Plot
[edit | edit source]Nikki Eaton, a 31-year-old journalist in a small town in New York state, deals with the murder of her widowed mother, Gwen, by a meth addict, while having an affair with a married man and clashing with her more conventional older sister.
Reception
[edit | edit source]Stacey D'Erasmo in The New York Times noted the themes of feminism and class politics in the novel and praised it as "more disturbing" than Oates's typical crime fiction.[1] Kirkus Reviews was negative, calling the novel "irrationally bloated" and based on a "banal premise".[2]
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