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My Mother Gets Married

My Mother Gets Married

Moa Martinson (Author), Margaret S. Lacy (Translator)
January 1993
Trade Paperback · 304 Pages
$9.95 U.S. · $12.00 CAN
ISBN 9780935312812
The Feminist Press at CUNY
 

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Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this rare novel is the first volume in Martinson's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy. Told through the seven-year-old child Mia's eyes, the novel portrays a life of dreadful poverty, recording in detail Mia's beautiful mother's pregnancies by her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband; the succession of rented rooms infested with rats and lice, where Mia lives; the insiduous separateness and cruelty that the haves inflict on the have-nots. A poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John Steinbeck.-Booklist