num_pages: 304
description: What Kind of Mother mixes Southern Gothic a missing child story and body horror into an entertaining brew sure to inform your nightmares.Paul Tremblay author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of GhostsAfter striking out on her own as a teen mom Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine Virginia with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. Its there that she connects with old high school flame Henry McCabe now a reclusive local fisherman whose infant son Skyler went missing five years ago. Everyone in town is sure Skyler is dead but when Madi reads Henrys palm shes haunted by strange and disturbing visions that suggest otherwise. As she follows the thread of these visions Madi discovers a terrifying nightmare waiting at the center of the labyrinthand its coming for everyone she holds dear.Combining supernatural horror with domestic suspense into a visceral exploration of parental grief What Kind of Mother cements Clay McLeod Chapman's reputation as a star (Vulture) and the twenty-first centurys Richard Matheson (Richard Chizmar Chasing the Boogeyman.)
language: English
title: What Kind of Mother
publisher: Quirk Books