MOTHER KNOT, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a
complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through
depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and
love,.
　　Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison’s
courageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother,
and of her depression and recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three,
Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with a
black, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermine
her sanity and her safety, a darkness that is tied to her
relationship with her own mother, dead for many years but no less a
haunting presence. Shaken by a family emergency that reveals the
fragility of her current happiness, Harrison falls prey to despair
and anxiety she believed she’d overcome long before. A relapse of
anorexia becomes the tangible reminder of a youth spent trying to
achieve the perfection she had hoped would win her mother’s love,
and forces her to confront, understand, and ultimately cast out—in
startling physical form—the demons within herself. Powerful,
insightful, unforgettable, by “a writer of extraordinary gifts”
(Tobias Wolff), Kathryn Harrison’s The Mother Knot is a
knockout.
　　From the Hardcover edition.