Never coming back

Resource Information

The work Never coming back represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Never coming back

Statement of responsibility

by Alison McGhee

Creator

• McGhee, Alison, 1960-

Author

• McGhee, Alison, 1960-

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Large type books
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Parent and adult child -- Fiction
• Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction

Genre

• Large type books
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become increasingly forgetful and can no longer live on her own. But just as her mother's memory is beginning to slip away, Clara's questions are building. Why was Tamar so insistent that Clara leave home all those years ago? Just what secrets was she hiding? If Clara, too, carries inside her the gene for early-onset Alzheimer's, what does that mean for her own future? With great tenderness and humanity, Alison McGhee tells the story of a young woman finding her way in life, determined to know her mother--and by extension herself--before it's too late

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.C36378

LC item number

N49 2018

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult