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"I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim?" Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant --…
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8 editions- Paperback · English · 2017Bloomsbury USA · 240 pages · 9781620406700
- Other · English · 2019Penguin Canada · 224 pages · 9780735234161
- Other · English · 2017Penguin Books, Limited · 224 pages · 9780241968031
- Other · English · 2016Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 217 pages · 9781620406694
- Other · English · 2016Penguin Books, Limited · 217 pages · 9780241146545
- Other · English · 2016Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 9781620406717
Self-actualization (Psychology) in womenDiseasesCauses and theories of causationParent and adult childFictionSelf-realization in womenMothers and daughtersLarge type books












