The Washington Post, February 20th, 2005
THE LOST MOTHER By Mary McGarry Morris Viking. 274 pp. $23.95 This is a perfectly lovely book about perfectly awful things. Eleven-year-old Thomas Talcott and his little sister Margaret have been abandoned by their mother. The Great Depression is under way; their father has lost his farm and most of his livelihood as an itinerant cattle-butcher. Homeless and hungry, the Talcotts are living in a tent. And a long Vermont winter is coming on. A couple of chapters into The Lost Mother, you are inclined to think, well, at least things can't get any worse. But there you fail to reckon with Mary ...
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