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Mommies Dearest
Parenting the good, the bad, and the criminally insane takes center stage in two of the new year s most hyped literary debuts, both already slated for major screen adaptations.
By Leah Greenblatt
Credit: Penguin Random House (2)
Whatever the sins of the father, society seems to save a particular, heinous place for bad mothering. What kind of storybook monster or malignant narcissist must a woman be, to so debase her own biology? That s the infinitely messy subject a high-profile pair of new novels can only begin to explore though they find a lot of smart, discomfiting things to say along the way.