Missing Mom
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Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Ecco Press |
Publication date | 2005 |
Pages | 434 pp |
ISBN | 978-0060816223 |
Missing Mom is a 2005 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates about the murder of a middle-aged widow.
Plot[edit]
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]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ D'Erasmo, Stacey (October 9, 2005). "'Missing Mom': The Lady Vanishes". The New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
- ^ "Missing Mom". Kirkus Reviews. May 20, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2022.