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Linda Moore
The Distance Between
The Distance Between
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"Surprising, sad, hilarious, and true."
Mattie Welsh has just received a phone call - one of the ones we dread - telling her that her parents have been in a serious car crash and may not survive. Almost without thinking, Mattie hops in the car and begins one of the longest journeys she will ever take, not just the journey from her home in Massachusetts to her hometown in Pennsylvania, but the journey back through all the years of her being the daughter of a mother whom she never understood, with a mother who never understood Mattie.
Along the way Mattie encounters several mothers and daughters (a pregnant hitchhiker, a gas station owner's mother, a tavern owner with two grown daughters, and a lost child whose mother is nowhere in sight.) Each meeting brings Mattie closer to her feelings, closer to her mother, closer to home. Tender, funny and wonderfully knowing, here is a novel that will strike a chord with any reader who ever had a mother, with every mother who ever had a child.
Mattie Welsh has just received a phone call - one of the ones we dread - telling her that her parents have been in a serious car crash and may not survive. Almost without thinking, Mattie hops in the car and begins one of the longest journeys she will ever take, not just the journey from her home in Massachusetts to her hometown in Pennsylvania, but the journey back through all the years of her being the daughter of a mother whom she never understood, with a mother who never understood Mattie.
Along the way Mattie encounters several mothers and daughters (a pregnant hitchhiker, a gas station owner's mother, a tavern owner with two grown daughters, and a lost child whose mother is nowhere in sight.) Each meeting brings Mattie closer to her feelings, closer to her mother, closer to home. Tender, funny and wonderfully knowing, here is a novel that will strike a chord with any reader who ever had a mother, with every mother who ever had a child.
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