Title: My mother's house
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.
Subjects: American Novelists, Mothers and sons, Social life and customs, Children of schizophrenics, Homes and haunts, Family relationships, Childhood and youth, Biography, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Louisiana, biography, Louisiana, social life and customs
Places: Louisiana
People: David Armand (1980-)
Time periods: 21st century