Another Mother: A Novel - Hardcover

Robson, Ruthann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312134312 ISBN 13: 9780312134310

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Angie (Evangelina) Evans - prominent attorney specializing in lesbian legal issues, partner in a committed relationship, mother to an adopted daughter - seems to many to have the best of all worlds. To herself, however, she is caught amid the contradictions that make up her life. Devoted to her own daughter, passionately involved in her legal work, and committed to her lover, Angie, nevertheless, has a difficult relationship with her own mother, must constantly struggle for support within her law group to continue her work, and is involved in a seemingly pointless affair with a legal intern. As she fights to make sense of the labels that have been applied to her - mother, daughter, lover, lesbian - Angie finds her crisis of identity boiling over.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruthann Robson is a professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law.

From Publishers Weekly:

Robson (Circle) has crafted a delicately nuanced novel about one woman's attempts to make sense of the labels that define her life. Angie Evans, a product of hardscrabble coal country and a depressive, clinging and abusive mother for whom she herself must now assume responsibility, is a high-powered New York lawyer specializing in defending the rights of lesbian mothers to retain custody of their children. Angie is a mother herself, to the adopted Skye, whose parenting she shares with Rachel, also a lawyer and her life partner of many years. She's also a reluctant philanderer, trapped in an unsatisfying affair with Kim, a manipulative legal intern. Angie is a workaholic and certainly obsessive, her life governed by the entries in the massive organizer book she carries everywhere; her dreams are confined to the pages of catalogues displaying luxury items. In episodic chapters stretching over a year, Angie's past and present merge, vignettes from her childhood and youth mixing with scenes from her current life. When the supports and boundaries of her existence begin to crumble (a client commits suicide, Rachel discovers her affair, etc.), Angie crashes as well, both figuratively and literally. And yet there is hope that somehow Angie will emerge complete, stronger for her travails and centered at last.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312134312
• ISBN 13: 9780312134310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259