Motherkind Author:Jayne Anne Phillips This is a brilliant new novel that explores the spiritual education at the heart of that fundamental transition: the child becoming the caretaker of the parent. Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage, must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beg... more »innings and profound loss. Jayne Anne Phillips tells Kate's story in a delicately layered narrative in which the daily details of life resonate with import and meaning.« less