The Good Mother

By Sue Miller

Book Overview

Original publication and copyright date: 1986.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060155515
• ISBN13: 9780060155513
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.1" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking, and explicit. The Selfish Mother?

I just finished this book, and boy am I exhausted. I would have loved to have given this book 5 stars, but Sue Miller's book was a little to overly explicit and graphic about everything. I felt like I was a psychologist or "Shrink" listening to every detail of Anna's (the main charactor) thoughts. This divorced mother is trying to raise her young daughter, and discover her sexuality with her slezy boyfriend. She puts herself and her loser boyfriend ahead of her daughter, drinks too much, and has only part time jobs, while refusing help from her ex or family. She continuously complains, but doesn't change anything until she HAS to. A page turner until the end. But I found myself skipping sentences and then paragraphs because of needless detail.

Real, Honest and Great Reading

This book dealt with powerful issues regarding the lifestyle of a woman needs to be both power of example to her child yet have a life of her own. Anna clearly realized she had to make a choice and the choice was her child though she lost dearly, both the relationship with her daughter and loss of Leo. Anna knew she could not reconnect with her daughter if she kept Leo in her life and she made a very brave and difficult decision. To amend her behavior she moved near her daugher for her comfort, giving up her own and left Leo and the friends she made in her town. Sue Miller did a great job.

Wonderful, sad, honest, but most of all....human

For anyone who has been sexually abused or has been accused ofit. This book will challenge your reality. Sue Miller is so brave,and so honest in depicting a family in crisis. She does a wonderful job describing a parent's relationship with self and child and the boundries that can become blurred. A very emotional and human book.