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  title info:
    title: Good mothers don't
  title info:
    title: Good mothers do not
  name:
    name part: Best, Laura (Laura A.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 330 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in the Forties Settlement. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children, wants to harm her children, wants to be stopped from harming her children. She doesn't sleep, becomes incoherent. Elizabeth is taken away. We rejoin her in 1975, "well" once again, living in a group home and desperately trying to fill in the enormous gaps electric shock therapy has left in her memory. She remembers five words from her past and knows they are significant, but their meaning is slippery and she can't grasp more. She knows that Jewel and Jacob are her children, though she can't picture their faces, and more than anything, she longs to find them and explain that she never meant to leave for so long. Shifting through time and points of view, acclaimed author Laura Best's first novel for adults allows us to see the ripple effects of mental illness and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century. Good Mothers Don't is a moving exploration of illness, memory, and how we fight for who we love."--
  note: Laura Best.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  subject:
    topic: Mentally ill mothers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mother and child
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Memory
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Memory
  subject:
    topic: Mentally ill mothers
  subject:
    topic: Mother and child
  classification: PR9199.4.B47885 G66 2020
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Good mothers don't
    name:
      name part: Best, Laura (Laura A.)
    origin info:
      publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Vagrant Press, 2020
    identifier: (OCoLC)1134383182
  identifier: 9781771088282
  identifier: 1771088281
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 191230
    record change date: 20250318220340.2
    record identifier: in00004402396
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng