5/24/2023 0 Comments Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy![]() ![]() ![]() Little Mary, meanwhile, is never told the story of her ordeal-an improbably kept secret, since her kidnapping made headlines for months. Rita, a widow with a younger child, must come to terms with the fact that her kidnapped child was a baby she'd not welcomed wholeheartedly to begin with. Irene is taken to jail, and Pearl, now called Mary, is returned to Rita Spain, the mother she's never known. Several years later, the truth comes out. When Irene Rivers, who's already suffered the indignities of tuberculosis and an unloving family, realizes that she'll never give birth to a child of her own, she walks into a hospital maternity ward and walks out with a tiny baby girl she names Pearl. A triptych about motherhood-portraits of three troubled women whose stories are deeply, darkly, inextricably linked-from critic and first-novelist Morrissy, fiction reviewer for The Irish Times. ![]()
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