Patricia Abbott is the author of more than 125 stories that have appeared online, in print journals and in various anthologies. She is the author of Monkey Justice and Home Invasion and co-editor of Discount Noir. She won a Derringer award for her story "My Hero."Abbott's new novel is Concrete Angel.
One of the author's five favorite novels about mothers and daughters, as shared at Crimespree Magazine:
AMY AND ISABELLE by Elizabeth Strout.Read about the other entries on the list.
This was Strout’s first novel and boy, was it an amazing beginning to what’s gone on to be a sterling career (OLIVE KITTEREDGE, THE BURGESS BOYS, ABIDE WITH ME). In AMY AND ISABELLE, a mother’s shocked to learn her teenage daughter is having a sexual relationship with a teacher at her school. Strout sets the book in a small town where other issues like crop failures and UFO’s add to the confusion. The closeness yet distance of mother-daughter relationships comes across especially strongly.
Amy and Isabelle is among James Mustich's five top books on mothers and children.
The Page 69 Test: Concrete Angel.
Writers Read: Patricia Abbott.
My Book, The Movie: Concrete Angel.
--Marshal Zeringue
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