My Mother's Lovers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780874174953)

Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a small Idaho mill town in the late 1960s. Her parents' eccentric lifestyle makes Lake an outcast among the children of the town, and the unspoken tensions among the adults of her parents' social universe puzzle and disturb her. She ponders over her mother's infidelities and the mysterious resentment between her mother and her grandparents far away in St. Louis, and between her mother and her aunt, a conventional career woman relentlessly in search of love.

As a teenager, Lake joins her grandparents in Missouri and spends her youth seeking answers to her questions about the past, trying to understand the complex pattern of betrayals that shaped it. Only when she herself becomes party to a betrayal as devastating as any committed by her mother does Lake begin to understand.

Passanante writes with a keen eye for the details of behavior that reveal the yearnings and fears beneath the surface. She shows us that the path to understanding is never a smooth one, and that love is often far more complex than we can imagine. Western Literature Series.

Author: Joy Passanante
ISBN-10: 0874174953
ISBN-13: 9780874174953
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.04w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2002 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 02/11/2002 pg. 161
Foreword 05/01/2002 pg. 54