num_pages: 304
description: A major novel from the highly acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Black Tickets that depicts the life of a new wife and mother who must become a caregiver to her ailing mother, and  confront profound loss alongside radiant beginnings. Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous as she takes the first steps into a new marriage complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young stepsons, she becomes caregiver to her ailing mother, the strong woman who has been her guiding star and counterpart across a divide of experience and time. Jayne Anne Phillips transforms quotidian details into a shimmering whole, giving us Kate and her family in all the complexity their world offers. Phillips’ renowned skill at portraiture combines with her equally nuanced sense of narrative in this heartstrong and delicately layered novel.
language: English
title: MotherKind: A Novel
titlecomplete: MotherKind: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 247
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage