Good Parents

Zusammenfassung A two-time winner of Australia’s prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award! Joan London’s debut novel! Gilgamesh ! was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now! London has delivered The Good Parents ! a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents’ orbit. Maya de Jong is an eighteen-year-old country girl who moves to Melbourne and begins an affair with her new boss. When Maya’s parents! Toni and Jacob! arrive for a visit! Maya is gone?no one knows where. Maya! for reasons of her own! leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother at home! carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most. Ultimately! to find her daughter Toni will have to revisit a part of her past that she thought she had shut off forever?the closest she ever came to being a lost girl herself. The Good Parents is at once utterly contemporary and a story as old as humanity itself: a stunning portrait of familial love and how far we can drift apart in the moments between the words we speak.

Product details

• Authors: Joan London, London Joan
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2009
• EAN: 9780802170576
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-7057-6
• No. of pages: 349
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Friendship, Australia, Fiction: general & literary, c 2000 to c 2009, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Australian, motherhood;Maya de Jong;Melbourne;family;humanity