In a country of mothers
By: A.M. Homes.
Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Series: Vintage contemporaries
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Psychotherapist and patient -- Fiction; Women psychoanalysts -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Adopted children -- Fiction
Description: Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of career and love on her mind. But Claire Roth, her therapist, keeps changing the focus of their sessions to Jody's parentage--Jody was adopted; Claire gave up a baby for adoption who would now be exactly Jody's age. As the two women become increasingly involved, speculation turns into certainty, fantasy into fixation. Until suddenly it is no longer clear just which of them needs the other more--or with more terrifying consequences.