{"product_id":"mother-land","title":"Paul Theroux: Mother Land [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theroux, Paul","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48151089250643,"sku":"XG80241144985","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/theroux-paul-mother-land-xg80241144985-55953027105107.jpg?v=1728222260","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/mother-land","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}