Publisher: W. W. Norton

Copyright Date: 2015

Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 10/05/15

Pages: 264 pages

ISBN: 0-393-24845-3

ISBN 13: 978-0-393-24845-6

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2015022459

Dimensions: 22 cm.

Subject Heading:
Mothers and daughters. Fiction.
Interpersonal relations. Fiction.
Families. Fiction.
Women. Fiction.

Language: English

Reading Level: 7.0

Interest Level: 9+

Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone. In "My Dog Roscoe," a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In "Blood Work, 1999," a phlebotomist's desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In "Home to Die," an abused woman takes revenge on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales about women and those they love, Campbell's spirited American voice is at its most powerful.

Sleepover
Playhouse
Tell Yourself
The greatest show on Earth, 1982: what there was
My dog Roscoe
Mothers, tell your daughters
My sister is in pain
A multitude of sins
To you, as a woman
Daughters of the animal kingdom
Somewhere warm
My bliss
Blood work, 1999
Children of Transylvania, 1983
Natural disasters
The fruit of the pawpaw tree.