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Theroux's title character is a recently widowed Cape Cod octogenarian and mother of seven surviving children, all of whom she manipulates and pits against one another with telephone-delivered gossip and selectively doled-out monetary gifts. Son JP, a writer, wryly reminisces about a childhood spent under her control and an adulthood trying to recover from the trauma while maintaining a relationship with his often fractured family. The siblings deal with Mother...Log In or Sign Up to Read More