The Lauras

Resource Information

The work The Lauras represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Lauras

Statement of responsibility

Sara Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Sara, 1988-

Author

• Taylor, Sara, 1988-

Subject

• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Road trips -- Fiction
• United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong. As we made our way from Virginia to California, returning to the places where she'd lived as a child in foster care and as a teenager on the run, repaying debts and keeping promises, I learned who she was in her life-before-me and the secrets she had kept - even from herself. But when life on the road began to feel normal I couldn't forget the home we'd left behind, couldn't deny that, just like my mother, I too had unfinished business. This enigmatic pilgrimage takes them back to various stages of Alex's mother's life, each new state prompting stories and secrets. Together they trace back through a life of struggle and adventure to put to rest unfinished business, to heal old wounds and to search out lost friends. This is an extraordinary story of a life; a stunning exploration of identity and an authentic study of the relationship between a mother and her child

Cataloging source

NLE

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult