My mother's house
By: David Armand
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Huntsville, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781680030730
Subjects: American Novelists; Mothers and sons; Social life and customs; Children of schizophrenics; Homes and haunts; Family relationships; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: "Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, My Mother?s House is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author?s early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingly negative experiences with a sympathetic and understanding brush. As the reader follows Armand through his childhood and later into adult life?when he is reunited with his mother after she makes a failed suicide attempt?a surprisingly new world of hope and possibility is rendered, despite the overwhelming challenges of this reunion." -- from publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: 1980s; title: 1990s; title: 2000s; title: Now and beyond.