The Mothers

by Keith Botsford

The Mothers are the women in Jim Mounts's his adoring (and rejected) mother Felicita (ironical name for her, "happiness"), and the four women he has loved and lived Louise, Maria, Natasha, ( a rich mans wife) and Francine. Mount see that when "girls" become "Mothers" something changes in them. Botsford's portraits are seething, often terrifyingly intense and mysogynisitc. The are also deeply loving, life-giving, and generous.

279 pages, Hardcover

Published April 1, 2002

About the author

Novelist, essayist, journalist, biographer, memoirist, teacher, translator, and editor.

See obituary at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/bo....