Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

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Julia's mother, who is no longer prepared to provide a free child-minding service. After fainting in the series 2 finale, she is found to be unable to take care of herself, so moves in with Julia in series 3. She passes away in the 2022 Christmas special. The acerbic and selfish leader of the "Alpha Mums", obsessed with compliments on her youthful appearance and energy. Extremely image-conscious, she pretends her marriage is perfect, but her husband Johnny treats her dismissively, and they divorce in the second series. She has two children, Manus and Georgie. Is that enough? Just to have faith that things might change? Or should we do things, to make them change?” While the first third of the book was a bit slow and repetitive I am happy to recommend it based on the last two-thirds of the book alone. Let me also clear that “𝙎𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙙𝙤𝙜 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤���𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙚” DOES NOT DEFINE INDIA WHICH IS MADE BY A BRITISH DIRECTOR.

The school receptionist, moody and blunt towards many of the parents, but especially towards Julia.

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Leah Franqui's Mother Land is a delightful exploration of cultural expectations and the way they shape identity. The basic set-up is simple. After meeting and marrying in New York, Rachel and Dhruv move to Mumbai. Dhruv grew up in Kolkata, so the move is a return home for him; for Rachel it's sudden immersion in an unfamiliar culture. To complicate matters, shortly after the couple's arrival, Swati, Dhruv's mother, shows up on their doorstep, announcing that she has left Dhruv's father and will be living with them. What follows is a fierce, if well-meant, battle of wills as Rachel and Swati each try to shape the other to meet cultural expectations. The mother of a boy in the same year group as the other parents'. She also comes on the school trip, but gets confrontational with Liz when Liz accuses her son for being racist towards Meg's daughter Jade. White, Peter (9 June 2023). "ABC Pilot Watch: Comedies Public Defenders& Motherland Remake Keeping It Together& Dramas The Hurt Unit& Judgement Not Moving Forward". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 10 June 2023. a b Martinson, Jane (6 October 2016). "BBC's Motherland to return as full series". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 October 2016.

Wilson, Benji (7 November 2017). "Motherland reaches similar comedy heights to Fawlty Towers". The Telegraph . Retrieved 8 November 2017. Mother Land is a pleasant story of self-discovery and friendship with plenty of twists and intrigue to keep the reader engaged.” — Washington Independent Review of Books With fury, rage and spite, it seems. Theroux’s new novel Mother Land has as an epigraph the famous lines from WB Yeats’s “Remorse for Intemperate Speech”: “Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I carry from my mother’s womb / A fanatic heart” – which pretty much sums up the tone of the book. Stephen King in the New York Times has described Mother Land as “an exercise in self-regarding arrogance and self-pity” (which is certainly one way to read it), though he also admitted that he enjoyed the book “against my will”.Heartfelt, charming, deeply insightful and wise, Mother Land introduces us to two very different women from very different cultures . . . who maybe aren’t so different after all. Heartfelt, charming, deeply insightful and wise, Mother Land introduces us to two complex women from very different cultures . . . who maybe have more in common than they realize. Critical Praise Paul’s mother, who takes more looking after than the children do. She appears in both Christmas specials. While Rachel would define herself as a modern, western, woman with the ability to stand up for herself, she comes to find that she can learn from Swati. And Swati makes changes in her own life based in part on how she views her daughter in law and son’s relationship.

I liked the ending? I liked that Swati and Rachel went on to live independently and remained friends, but this is pretty much the only part of the book I enjoyed. It feels like a love letter to a misunderstood city with its lush descriptions of food, people, and culture. She also dives into the complexities of marriage, friendship and family. What it means to be a woman and have courage to speak up and ask for what you want. To look inside yourself for your needs.

I’ve been reading a lot of character driven stories this month and I am getting kind of bored of them. So unfortunately I may have read this one at the wrong time. If you have any good plot driven stories, please let me know! Throughout the book, Rachel (protagonist) was portrayed as “an independent and loving spirit with a curious mind.”