One True Thing : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Anna Quindlen

• Book ID: 115030368
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 316 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780812976182

✦ Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A "hypnotically interesting" (The Washington Post Book World) novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Miller 's Valley

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"[Anna Quindlen] writes passionately . . . painstakingly uncovering all the intensity, suspicion and primitive love that bonds mothers and daughters."--The Boston Globe
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Ellen Gulden is enjoying her career as a successful magazine writer in New York City when she learns that her mother, Kate, is dying of cancer. Ellen's father insists that she quit her job and return home to become a caregiver. A high-powered career woman, Ellen has never felt she had much in common with her mother, a homemaker and the heart of their family. Yet as Ellen begins to spend time with Kate, she discovers many surprising truths, not only about herself, but also about the woman she thought she knew so...