This a novel by the same writer as Ellen Foster, and this novel I think was stronger over all. I understood the praise for Ellen Foster as a novel, but I think this one is stronger. This novel takes places over the course of a few decades as we watch a woman (the narrator’s mother) be diagnosed with, live with, and eventually die in conjunction with dementia and some kind of bipolar disorder. It should be noted that the novel is from 1995 and the […]
If hitting a woman was the only way my mother would get help, then that was that.
Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
