Missing Mom: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 464 pages

Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Missing Mom: A Novel
• Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061748080, 9780061748080
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Women