Please die, Mother.

(The Dutiful Child)

Written in the style of calssical confessional literature, the adult protagonist, shocked by a fleeting thought about his mother, whom he loves, but resents, retraces his youth looking for reasons and answers for his emotional conflicts.

This captavating, suspensful, sometimes shocking, and often humorous, novel is set against a backdrop of mid-twentieth century events, and everyday destructive family dynamics, and shifting social issues.