![]() ![]() The mother, years before, rather brazenly revealed to her daughter an extensive extramarital love-life. During this crisis, as well as earlier, Andrea`s father is curiously invalidated, a character barely sketched, a presence barely factored in. She recovers speech and movement through Andrea`s rather remarkable efforts. Then Andrea`s mother suffers a debilitating stroke. As the novel progresses, we replicate the child`s assembly of life myth a tableau here, an incantation there, the supporting cast of lesser gods hovering neaby. Like her, we have a hard time understanding what goes on around her we share her bewilderment over the perplexing pronouncements made by this enigmatic mother-goddess to whom we are attached. : Collaborators (9780394550800) by Kauffman, Janet and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. As the novel begins, Andrea Doria is a child, and we see the events of the novel from her limited point of view. ![]() In ''Collaborators'' a daughter grows up and a mother disintegrates, but in a condensed time-frame-what normally takes decades takes just a few years. Read Eco-dementia by Janet Kauffman available from Rakuten Kobo. Andrea Doria and her Mennonite family live on a Pennsylvania tobacco farm adjacent to a state penitentiary, doubly set off from the social mainstream. Collaborators by Kauffman, Janet and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. ![]()
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