Mother Land

Reading Mother Land is like watching a slow-motion car crash...Theroux ends up assassinating all of his characters, but I still enjoyed the play. -Stephen King, New York Times Book Review Theroux's prose is suitably silky in its insinuations and vicious in its ability to claw... Theroux, fusing anguish and glee as he picks at the same raw scabs for 500-plus pages, evokes something truly memorable: a realm many come from, to which some of us have no desire to return. - The Boston Globe Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land . - Vanity Fair