A01=Molly Moynahan
Author_Molly Moynahan
book club fiction for women midlife transformation
books like Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason
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character-driven literary fiction about marriage and desire
character-driven literary fiction women's lives
contemporary literary fiction female protagonist midlife crisis
Elizabeth Strout style novels about women's lives
emotional literary fiction about family and identity
emotional literary fiction about grief identity and healing
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forthcoming
literary fiction about midlife women reinventing themselves
novels about creative women rediscovering themselves
novels about female reinvention after loss
women's literary fiction about identity and motherhood
Product details
- ISBN 9798993936550
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Empress Editions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A novel about the cost of becoming - and the courage it takes to remain visible. What happens when a woman realizes she has disappeared inside her own life? And what would it take to come back into full view? Maggie has survived everything life could throw at her - addiction, grief, single motherhood, ambition that didn't go as planned, and love that arrived in the wrong shape at the wrong time. Now, in midlife, she's finally done pretending. She wants the truth - about her marriage, her desires, her talent, and the woman she once promised herself she'd become. Told in razor-sharp, luminous prose, MOTHERPERSON follows Maggie across New York, London, Dallas, Chicago, and a dusty artist's retreat in Taos as she confronts the roles she was handed - wife, daughter, mother, teacher - and the one she buried: herself. Her journey is messy, funny, raw, hopeful, and deeply human as she falls for an Irish painter, battles the stereotypes that try to shrink her, and ignites the spirits of students who've nearly given up. What emerges is a portrait of a woman refusing to disappear - choosing, instead, to live wide awake. Bold, intimate, and defiantly honest, MOTHERPERSON is a story for every woman who has ever wondered: Where did I go - and how do I get myself back? Perfect for readers of: Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, Writers & Lovers by Lily King, and I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
