Songs My Mother Taught Me

by Audrey Thomas

Book Overview

Audrey Thomas's classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape, now republished with a new introduction. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345241886
• ISBN13: 9780345241887
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Songs My Mother Taught Me

I first read this memorable book when I was in high school. Twenty years later I found myself recommending it to my daughters. Songs My Mother Taught Me is a coming of age story about the manner in which a young woman comes to terms with herself and her relationships with her remarkably disfunctional (fearful and angry) parents. In doing so she draws strength, maturity, and perspective from both expected and unexpected sources: a caring, albeit excentric grandfather, a summer love, and the staff and inmates of an institution for the insane.

The passionate emotions of this story are Thomas's trademark

Songs My Mother Taught Me is a heart-warming account of a young girl's relationship with a mother she never really knew nor took the time to care about. The author recounts the story as a fond recollection of her youth and the interactions and friction amongst the members of her family. She is especially concise and sometimes even bitter towards the sister character in the book. Yet these real-life human qualites which Thomas gives to her characters are what keep her readers interested and dedicated to following her work. A true delight