Hannah, the adult daughter of an eccentric prize-winning writer, leaves her successful life behind to return home to care for her ailing mother. In a bizarre role reversal, she finds herself caring for the mother who never had time to care for her. As she searches for ways— both conventional and radical— to ease her mother's suffering, past and present blur. A darkly comic novel of family, aging, and loss.
“South African writer Erasmus’ haunting North American debut begins and ends with a mother’s death. Erasmus writes with raw urgency… Despite the unfolding tragedy, Erasmus deftly inserts surprising humor and charm, even channeling novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, to create an empathic journey of death and, also, life.” – Booklist