Overview
A novel about the cost of becoming—and the courage it takes to remain visible.
What happens when a woman realizes she has disappeared inside her own life?
And what would it take to come back into full view?
Maggie has survived everything life could throw at her—addiction, grief, single motherhood, ambition that didn’t go as planned, and love that arrived in the wrong shape at the wrong time. Now, in midlife, she’s finally done pretending. She wants the truth—about her marriage, her desires, her talent, and the woman she once promised herself she’d become.
Told in razor-sharp, luminous prose, MOTHERPERSON follows Maggie across New York, London, Dallas, Chicago, and a dusty artist’s retreat in Taos as she confronts the roles she was handed—wife, daughter, mother, teacher—and the one she buried: herself. Her journey is messy, funny, raw, hopeful, and deeply human as she falls for an Irish painter, battles the stereotypes that try to shrink her, and ignites the spirits of students who’ve nearly given up.
What emerges is a portrait of a woman refusing to disappear—choosing, instead, to live wide awake.
Bold, intimate, and defiantly honest, MOTHERPERSON is a story for every woman who has ever wondered: Where did I go—and how do I get myself back?
Perfect for readers of:
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
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