The Good Mother, Sue Miller
The Good Mother, Sue Miller
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The Good Mother
A Novel

Author: Sue Miller

Narrator: Marni Penning

Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/25/2020


Synopsis

""A tour de force. Sue Miller goes straight to the dark heart of the matter of modern sexual morality.""   —Russell Banks
Sue Miller’s critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller about a woman torn between motherhood and sexual freedom, sacrifice and responsibility.After an amicable divorces, piano teacher Anna Dunlap has built an independent life in New England for herself and her four-year-old daughter, Molly. It's all Anna thinks she needs — until she meets Leo Cutter, an artist who makes her feel desired, unabashedly sexual, and filled with certitude and passion for the first time.All it takes is a single unguarded moment for Anna's perfect world to implode, Leveling shocking charges against Leo, Anna's ex-husband crashes back into Anna's life and takes Molly with him. When it thrusts Anna into a public and ugly custody battle, she is forced to defend her choices, to confront the damage done by the choices of others, and to prove herself, against seemingly unpardonable odds, a good mother. 

About Sue Miller

Sue Miller is the bestselling author of While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 30, 2014

As far as characters in society go, mothers are some of the most scrutinized of all. Everyone seems to have an opinion on what makes a woman a good mother. Even the smallest of choices, such as baby-wearing vs. a stroller, can incite a firestorm. The Good Mother explores an issue much larger in its c......more

Goodreads review by William on January 31, 2009

in our local library there is a shelf where the librarians put books that they have read and recommend. a week or so ago "the good mother" was on the rack. so i picked it up. i had read one other of miller's books, "private lives", and liked it. from a review of her most recent book i knew that this......more

Goodreads review by Esther on May 18, 2008

first read this when I was about 13, and it made quite an ..cough cough...impression with the whole sex/relationships theme. I thought it was brilliant, in that way you do at that pretentious age when you read something meant for readers older than you. Came across a dusty copy in a secondhand store......more

Goodreads review by Kim on October 02, 2009

Occasionally when looking up the prices for these reviews I write, I have a quick look at what has been said previously about the book. I have found, on the odd occasion, that another review has made me consider something I had not previously even been aware of the existence of. The reviews never al......more

Goodreads review by Nmyers on November 06, 2010

The Good Mother was a disappointment for me in several ways. The biggest disappointment was the fact that Anna never was taught by her own family or learned it herself, that "you don't have to let boys touch you or have sex with you that are mean to you and that you have a choice." You find Anna doi......more