Mother in the Dark

Mother in the Dark
Mother in the Dark
Mother in the Dark

This title has a release date of August 9, 2022. See below for more information.

Written by: Kayla Maiuri

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Mother in the Dark Release Date

Mother in the Dark releases August 9, 2022

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August 9, 2022

Mother in the Dark Release Date

Mother in the Dark released on August 9, 2022.

Mother in the Dark Synopsis

“Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto.” —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me

A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters.

When Anna’s sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn’t return the call. She knows it’s about their mother.

Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna’s childhood was sparse but comfortable—filled with homemade pasta sauce and a close-knit neighborhood. Anna and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature as she bounces between tenderness and bitterness.

When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna’s mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her expands until it threatens to explode. Her daughters, trapped with her in the new house, isolated, must do everything they can to keep her from unraveling.

Alternating between childhood and Anna’s twenties, when she receives a shattering call about her mother that threatens to blow up her own precariously constructed life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever really go back home when the idea of home is so unstable. Whether we can escape that instability or accept that our personalities are built around the defenses we put up. Maiuri is a master at revealing the fragile horrors of domestic family life and how the traumas of the past shape the present and generations of women.

A story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters, Mother in the Dark delivers an unvarnished portrayal of a young woman consumed by her past and a family teetering on the edge of a knife.

Genre: Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction

Kayla Maiuri
Kayla Maiuri

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