Frieda Haxby is as famous for her writing as she is for her eccentricities. But for Daniel Palmer, his sisters Rosemary and Grace and their families, she is a monster mother, caring only for her work, her lovers, herself.
Benjamin D'Anger, Friedas half-Guyanese grandson, alone can inspire affection in her, while the others fret about what might be in her will. For Frieda, uncommunicative and uninviting, has exchanged the family home for a ramshackle mansion perched on the edge of the sea. There she sits among the junk and debris, writing her memoirs, raising the dead and the disappeared from her past.
Benjamin D'Anger, Friedas half-Guyanese grandson, alone can inspire affection in her, while the others fret about what might be in her will. For Frieda, uncommunicative and uninviting, has exchanged the family home for a ramshackle mansion perched on the edge of the sea. There she sits among the junk and debris, writing her memoirs, raising the dead and the disappeared from her past.