She has seen herself as very different from her mother, the talented homemaker, the family's popular center, its one true thing. Ellen has always been the special child in the family, the high achiever, her father's intellectual match, and the person caught in the middle between her parents. Her father insists that Ellen quit her job and come home to take care of Kate. When Ellen Gulden first learns that her mother, Kate, has cancer, the disease is already far advanced. She says she didn't do it she thinks she knows who did. A young woman is in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her mother. All these distinctive and original gifts, plus the magic only a superb writer of fiction can create, are evident in this astonishing book. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Quindlen is widely admired for her extraordinary intelligence, humor, and insight, and for the depth of her perceptions about the public and private lives of ordinary people. "One True Thing" is a breathtaking, brilliantly realized novel, and it moves Anna Quindlen to the forefront of fiction writers in America.
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