Title: The sunflower forest
Description: Lesley's Hungarian mother Mara - charming, childlike, lovable - is traumatized by her adolescent Holocaust experiences. Though her American husband and daughters try to live a normal life, Mara holds them thrall to her moods and quirks. Lesley struggles to understand, but dealing with Mara is a severe strain which sets her apart from her peers. But when Mara's psychosis results in tragedy, Lesley goes to Wales in search of her mother's remembered joy.
Subjects: Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Hungarians, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Mothers, Mental health, Psychological aspects, Fiction, psychological, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction, Wales, fiction
Places: Wales