Fudge Day: "A woman is her mother. That's the main thing." These two lines from the poem "Housewife" by Anne Sexton certainly describe the mother-daughter relationship in Fudge Day. On one side we have Mitzi, a single mother raised in the world of the imagination. Poetry, fiction, and film have defined her life. Mitzi, a writer who cannot manage to finish her novel, is the kind of mom any literary woman might imagine herself to be, bringing up her daughter, Audrey, with all the wisdom she's embraced from her books and desiring her own masterpiece to be perfect. On the other side is Audrey, affectionately nicknamed Scout by Mitzi after the daughter of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Audrey, like any teenage girl on the cusp of realization, rejects her mother's eccentricities in an attempt to hold on to her innocence and maintain a life that might be considered normal. But Audrey, too, has been raised in the imagination. She comes to see the deeper reality that all those authors she's read attempt to convey, what it means to be human: fragile, tenuous, and afraid to be alone. Thanksgiving sets the scene for this coming of age story when Mitzi realizes she cannot hold on to Audrey forever and Audrey comes to realize that she herself will never be able to let go.

Fudge Day

Teen & Young Adult

Rich Skalstad

Literature & Fiction

Colonus Publishing

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Fudge Day