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Summary:

The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who's punishing her for withholding his father's true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties, the increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over the legacy she will bestow upon her son. Portraying the most intense and even shameful moments of motherhood, and the things we leave unsaid even to those we want most to hear them, the novel is also a celebration of one woman's private reckoning with the source of her life's most profound pain--as well as its greatest pleasure.
Roberta Chase does not have much time left to make peace with her son. He is punishing her for withholding his father's true identity from him. A s a single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties. She is also suffering increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over the legacy she will bestow upon her son. -- adapted from jacket

Author/Creator:

Treadway, Jessica, 1961-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Gretchen question: a novel [by Treadway, J.]

Subjects:

Single mothers — Fiction

Mothers and sons — Fiction

Friendship — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PS3620.R43 G74 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781504063548 (electronic bk.)
1504063546 (electronic bk.)
1883285895 [Invalid]
9781883285890 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1155330432

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6201914 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301285041