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A richly complete, darkly hilarious novel of a family group held along and torn aside by its narcissistic matriarch. To those in her Cape Cod town, Mom can be an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her hubby and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mom Land. She excels at participating in her offspring against one another. Her favorite, Angela, passed on in childbirth; only Angela really knows her, she instructs the others. Others are the officious law firm, Fred; the uproarious teacher, Floyd; a set of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mom has used their lives; and JP, the narrator, an effective writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of 100, her brood battles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hang on them. Mom Land is a piercing family portrait of how a parent's narcissism impacts a family. As the particulars of this tale are unique, Theroux encapsulates with severe clarity and intelligence a situation that is familiar to legions of listeners. And beyond offering the impact and comfort of identification, Mom Land presents for everybody an engrossing, heartbreaking, and often funny saga of an great family that bickers, colludes, connives, and finally overcomes the agonizing ties that bind them.
