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The Good Parents
The Good Parents: A Novel | Joan London
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A two-time winner of Australias prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award, Joan Londons debut novel, Gilgamesh, was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now, London has delivered The Good Parents, a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents orbit. Maya de Jong is an eighteen-year-old country girl who moves to Melbourne and begins an affair with her new boss. When Mayas parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive for a visit, Maya is goneno one knows where. Maya, for reasons of her own, leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother at home, carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most. Ultimately, to find her daughter Toni will have to revisit a part of her past that she thought she had shut off foreverthe closest she ever came to being a lost girl herself. The Good Parents is at once utterly contemporary and a story as old as humanity itself: a stunning portrait of familial love and how far we can drift apart in the moments between the words we speak.
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awwww love ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
OriginalCyn620 So sweet! ❤️😊 5y
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Not to take anything away from parents or teachers, but this quote included books, too! #quotsy #quotsysept18 #parents

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This was between a pick and so-so for me. I really enjoyed the first two thirds, but somehow the story ran out of steam and I stopped believing it by the end. A pity because Joan London has a lot of interesting things to say about family relationships, the bonds and tensions between parents and children and between siblings. But, for me, her most recent novel The Golden Age says it more satisfyingly.

LeeRHarry Good to know - one of my favourite books is Gilgamesh 😊 6y
CarolynM @LeeRHarry I liked Gilgamesh a lot too. This one started so well but I was a bit disappointed by the time I finished it. 6y
MrsMalaprop I have enjoyed all her books. Loved 6y
CarolynM @MrsMalaprop I loved The Golden Age too. It may have over inflated my expectations of this one. 6y
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