I'd recommend this book to everyone but as it's pure art and some may or might not understand the concept of the book! Heartfelt, charming, deeply insightful and wise, Mother Land introduces us to two complex women from very different cultures . . . who maybe have more in common than they realize. It talked about the terror unknown from the new motherland of how to raise her child amid the violence and danger in today's America and also what she inherited from her family, ancestors simply migrant Brazilian past. It also reflects passing on familial legacy to the next generation.

Is that enough? Just to have faith that things might change? Or should we do things, to make them change?” Swati slept with her best friend’s son she slept with a man that is the same age as her own son and they grew up together and then she slept with him and she hooked up with a boy who was practically like her own son I do not understand what that was at all what she whyyyy????? Is the author, publisher, editor and everyone else associated with this disgraceful book unaware that India was RIPPED APART during the British Raj? I thought when i moved here that I would find the things I wanted, but I have only become more and more confused. I keep pouring things into my body to fill it up, to make it full of something that will make me feel less...alone. Less unhappy. But it doesn't work. Smoke & rum and work and even people. None of it works." When Rachel ends up with a cleaner coming more frequently and a cook she definitely doesn't want things start to fall apart, and yet mysteriously they also come together, just not in the way either Rachel or Swati expected. For Rachel cooking is important, for Swati one has servants for that.Leah Franqui's Mother Land is a delightful exploration of cultural expectations and the way they shape identity. The basic set-up is simple. After meeting and marrying in New York, Rachel and Dhruv move to Mumbai. Dhruv grew up in Kolkata, so the move is a return home for him; for Rachel it's sudden immersion in an unfamiliar culture. To complicate matters, shortly after the couple's arrival, Swati, Dhruv's mother, shows up on their doorstep, announcing that she has left Dhruv's father and will be living with them. What follows is a fierce, if well-meant, battle of wills as Rachel and Swati each try to shape the other to meet cultural expectations.

Rifkind, Hugo (23 December 2022). "Motherland review — school-gate mum politics with seething, unspoken depths". The Times . Retrieved 24 December 2022. Das ist das Bild, das die Menschen in Cape Cod von Jay und seiner Familie haben. Aber dieses Bild entspricht nicht der Realität. Als sich Jay und seine Geschwister am Sterbebett des Vaters treffen, zerbricht es. Selbst wenn Jay nicht seine Version von seiner Jugend erzählt hätte, hätte man am Umgang der Geschwister untereinander gesehen dass es ganz anders war, als die Leute es gesehen haben.After losing her mother's help with childcare, Julia faces a far bigger role in her children's lives than before. She initially tries to become part of the Alpha Mums group, but realises she has more in common with parenting "misfits" Liz and Kevin. She has two children: Ivy and James, and is married to Paul. A stay-at-home dad to Rosie and Emily, who unsuccessfully tries to ingratiate himself into Amanda's circle. His wife, Jill, an unseen character, treats him terribly and seems to resent both him and their children; they divorce in the third series.

With fury, rage and spite, it seems. Theroux’s new novel Mother Land has as an epigraph the famous lines from WB Yeats’s “Remorse for Intemperate Speech”: “Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carry from my mother’s womb / A fanatic heart” – which pretty much sums up the tone of the book. Stephen King in the New York Times has described Mother Land as “an exercise in self-regarding arrogance and self-pity” (which is certainly one way to read it), though he also admitted that he enjoyed the book “against my will”. Mother Land is a pleasant story of self-discovery and friendship with plenty of twists and intrigue to keep the reader engaged.” — Washington Independent Review of BooksMother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent’s narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers. A busy working mum with a remarkable capacity for partying. Julia is initially jealous of Meg's ability to juggle, but Meg becomes good friends with the trio. She is diagnosed with breast cancer in the third series, but later is diagnosed cancer-free. Mother Land by Leah Franqui tells a story that somewhat mirrors the author’s own life. In the author’s biography we are informed that Leah had met an Indian screenwriter in New York and the two married and moved to Mumbai. In Mother Land Rachel marries and Indian businessman in New York and moves to Mumbai. See the similarities? At times, I squirmed vocally while reading. You may never have read such a cruel, demanding, willful, spiteful, petty, savage mother in literature. Short of murder, this may be the worst behaving mother I’ve seen in literary history. Yet she somehow delivers her spite with a façade that appears kind and fair to those outside the family. The kids, now middle-aged, are a furious, depressing lot, some more than others. The story is narrated by one of the writer sons, Jay. The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year.

A strange book, it made me feel slightly uneasy - like listening in to a conversation I shouldn’t have been privy to.I don't believe she was actually stillborn, but never made it out of the hospital alive. Mother declares that Angela is “the only child who actually understands me!” At one family gathering, an outsider (new in-law) asked about the empty place (think: Passover), being awkwardly shut up with “It's for Angela.” At a later event during the story, Mother graciously offers to channel Angela for individual messages. DNF I made it to 4 cds out of 19. The narrator was probably perfect for reading this - he had a very haughty superior sounding voice (Jefferson Mays) which was perhaps perfect for the character. However, I found this was, of the 4 cds I could listen to, petty complaining and making something out to be bigger or more terrible than it actually was. I could not imagine that I would sit and listen through that for 23 hours. Now I'm reading that this is very close to an autobiographical story by Theroux. More than once while listening to this litany of petty complaints, I wanted to say "Dude, pull up a chair, you want to talk about mother issues? Because this here this is nothing - you're making mountains out of mole-hills." And repeating them. Incessantly. Favorite Quotes: The history of tyranny was the history of a damaged childhood - the child with power, of idiotic excesses and spite, which accounted for the irrationality and the violence. Political outrages and purges began as tantrums and ended as edicts. Leah Franqui had me in awe for much of the book - her rendering of India, especially Mumbai, was so nuanced and perceptive. Her voice is unique: we get to see India through the eyes of Rachel, a Jewish American, married to Dhruv, and her mother-in-law, Swati.