# Mother Land

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- Authors: [Paul Theroux](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-11-02

## Description

Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.

## Editions

### Mother Land

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-878-9
- Pages: 528
- Published: 2018-09-06
- Language: en_GB

### Mother Land

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-038-8
- Published: 2017-11-02
- Language: en_GB