"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child a
Mothers and Other Strangers
β Scribed by Gina Sorell
- Publisher
- Prospect Park Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child an inheritance of debts, threats, and mysteries.
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