by Joyce Carol Oates · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060816223
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«Missing Mom» is the literary fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Nikki Eaton, single and thirty-one, has never considered herself a daughter. After the unexpected death of her mother, Gwen, Nikki goes through a year of mourning in which horror and pain mix with moments of illumination and an unexpected form of love. The novel explores the absence of an ordinary woman and how that loss transforms the lives of those around her, with a sharp eye for the small details of family and small-town life.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in stories about grief, family, and the relationship between mothers and daughters.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
