A Search for the Motherline

In A Search for the Motherline the narrator an at-home mother of three young children deals with the problems of life in a development from 1974 to 1975. While her husband copes with the problems of a modern dental practice the narrator deals with house and children. She faces the trauma of coping with a difficult middle child an unplanned pregnancy and the husband pressuring her to find a job. She searches for balance between the demands of children and husband and her own interests as a person. She looks forward to a future of writing a return to her career in librarianship and the opportunity of training as a Jungian analyst. The setbacks in her life are more than compensated for by the happiness she finds seeing her three healthy beautiful children develop and begin school.