Songs My Mother Taught Me
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Songs My Mother Taught Me (1973) by Audrey Thomas is a coming-of-age novel. Isobel Cleary grows up in New York State in the 1940s and 1950s in a household marked by tension and unhappiness. As she grows older, she comes to see that she must escape her family before she too gives way to the loneliness, madness and despair she sees around her.
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- Margaret Atwood: “Audrey Thomas, author of the excellent Songs my Mother Taught Me”