Someone Not Really Her Mother

A Good Morning America Read This Book Club pick

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle

In this graceful and compassionate fiction, three generations of mothers and daughters in the McCarthy family face the challenges of Alzheimer’s. This story offers unusual insight into the consciousness of Hannah Pearl, who lives her daily life with courage and generosity in spite of her confusion. Although her daughter and granddaughters attempt to help her stay in the present of her Connecticut shoreline town, Hannah increasingly inhabits the world of her ardent youth in war-torn France and England. As Miranda McCarthy and her daughters Fiona and Ida walk on tiptoe around Hannah’s secrets, it is the reader who discovers and illuminates all the pieces of this intelligent and dream-like puzzle.

Someone Not Really Her Mother has also been published in Japan and the Netherlands.

• Author
• Harriet Scott Chessman

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 162

• Publisher
• Plume

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780452286979

• Genres
• fiction, holocaust

• Release date
• 2005