TY - BOOK AU - Huisman,Violaine AU - Camhi,Leslie TI - The book of mother: a novel SN - 1982108789 AV - PQ2708.U37 F8413 2021 U1 - 843/.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Fiction KW - Mental health KW - Manic-depressive persons KW - Sisters KW - FICTION / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Women KW - FICTION / Family Life / General KW - fast KW - Paris (France) KW - France KW - Paris KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft N1 - "Originally published in France in 2018 by Éditions Gallimard as Fugitive parce que reine"--Title page verso N2 - Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive ER -