A mother and daughter suffers the slings and arrows of their adversarial relationship as they act out their outwardly ordinary suburban existence. A first novel.

Blue Glass

Literature & Fiction

Tyler, Sandra

United States

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Returning home for the celebration of her grandmother's eightieth birthday with an erstwhile lover her family dislikes, Vickie is haunted by the mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother's death and comes to question her ties to her family.

After Lydia

Harcourt

A novel that vividly brings to life the inherently adversarial nature of the mother-daughter relationship and its yearnings. "This strong, thoughtful first novel...develops with quiet momentum" (Publishers Weekly). Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Harvest American Writing series

Blue Glass (Harvest American Writing)

Contemporary

Houghton/Mifflin

Thorndike Pr

When her 86-year-old mother falls and breaks her hip, Sandra Tyler is 42, with a nursing infant and precocious toddler. Tyler's mother insists on hiring her own caregivers-a motley patchwork of lost souls, including the too-friendly who think Scrabble is a good idea. But when she has a near-fatal fall, it is the author who hires a live-in aide, Chandice, who moves into her mother's house as if it were her own, with her KitchenAid mixer, bake pans, and apple-and-kale concoctions. Where should Tyler's allegiance lie when her mother threatens to fire Chandice for overloading the washing machine? At what cost to their relationship should she no longer defer to her mother's staunch guidance? As her mother's dementia worsens, Chandice warns the author about other daughters "gone crazy" watching their mothers become unrecognizable-after her mother's death, the author is admitted to a psychiatric ward, where she sleeps the "sleep of the dying," as her mother slept in her final weeks. But in the timelessness of this ward, she can wonder: was her closeness with her mother not of best friends, but something inherent in their dispositions as a writer and artist-in that compulsion to be seen and heard? With empathy and affectionate comedy, The Night Garden candidly explores what it means for a daughter to have her focus fractured by conflicting responsibilities while still seeking, above all else, her mother's approval, protection and love

The Night Garden: Of My Mother

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Pierian Springs Press

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