The first person everyone meets is her mother. Whatever else may follow, she's there from the start, and her presence, or absence, looms. It's a truth that sounds throughout literature, not to mention psychotherapy -- your mother is accountable for your neuroses, your ambitions, your wants and your fears. That's the case, at least, for Betsy Crane, one of the two narrators in Elizabeth Crane's inventive new novel, The History of Great Things. The other narrator, as it were, is her mother, Lois.�...
The Bottom Line: 'The History Of Great Things' By Elizabeth Crane
The Huffington Post - 8 Apr 2016 22:30
The first person everyone meets is her mother. Whatever else may follow, she's there from the start, and her presence, or absence, looms. It's a truth that sounds throughout literature, not to mention psychotherapy -- your mother is accountable for your neuroses, your ambitions, your wants and your fears. That's the case, at least, for Betsy Crane, one of the two narrators in Elizabeth Crane's inventive new novel, The History of Great Things. The other narrator, as it were, is her mother, Lois.�...
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