Conversations with My Mother

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Distinguished Favorite New Fiction 2025 Independent Press Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Hawthorne Prize Finalist (Fiction) 2025 American Writing Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Finalist General Fiction 2025 International Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Finalist Northeast Regional Fiction 2025 National Indie Excellence Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Honorable Mention General Fiction 2025 London Book Festival</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The memory of who we are survives in those we love. In </span><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Conversations with My Mother: a Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> an elderly good-hearted Francophone struggles with dementia as her small town succumbs to real-estate development. Focused on her relationship with her acerbic caregiver daughter and peripatetic businessman son the novel examines the siblings' attempts to cope with their mother's deepening decline and the impending sale of the family property to underwrite her care. A first-person present narrative with a strong sense of place that draws parallels between the beleaguered heroine's persistent kindness and the embattled Maine coast's enduring beauty the book is as much about gain as it is about loss and ultimately is more about hope than regret.</span></p>