Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light is low in Adelaida Rosado's New York City apartment, and shadows fill her eyes, for she is a mother who loves an only son who has been called the devil incarnate...
...believe. Born in Cuba, she left a bad marriage in 1957 and found another one in America. Her husband beat John from the beginning, she says. "And he beat me too." She says nothing about her son, or herself, that means as much as this: "I'm his mother. This is what a mother does...
...convince a stranger that he was railroaded the second time around, the lie flickers across his face and then settles in his eyes. You want to stand up and throttle him--first for what he did to his victims, and second for what he has done to his mother. And then you want to reach down inside him and get to his father...
...says, "You know what? I can't lie. I did some things, and I deserve to be here." His father's abuse is part of what he became, he says. "But not a major part." He put himself in prison, he will likely die there, and his mother, who amazes him, is all he has. "Her love transcends whatever obstacle I've thrown in front...
...place where the Canadian author attempts to link emotionally and spiritually with her unknown forebears. Like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and Garcia Marquez's Macondo, Nattel's imagined backwater is shot through with mythic significance. Even the river of the novel's title surges with the metaphorical force of Mother Ganges...