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The Mother : a Novel by Edwards, Yvvette is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mother : a Novel about?
The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely novel about an emotionally devastated mothers struggle to understand her teenage sons death and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of incomprehensible loss The unimaginable has happened to Marcia Williams. Her bright and beautiful sixteen-year-old son Ryan has been brutally murdered. Consumed by grief and rage, she must bridle her dark feelings and endure something no mother should ever have to experience: she must go to court for the trial of the killeranother teenage boyaccused of taking her sons life. How could her son be dead? Ryan should have been safehe wasnt the kind of boy to find himself on the wrong end of a knife carried by a dangerous young man like Tyson Manley. But as the trial proceeds, Marcia finds her beliefs and assumptions challenged as she learns more about Ryans death and Tysons life, including his dysfunctional family. She also discovers troubling truths about her own. As the strain of Ryans death tests their marriage, Lloydie, her husband, pulls further away, hiding behind a wall of secrets that masks his grief, while Marcia draws
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Edwards, Yvvette
- Publisher
- Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062440815
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (238 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14