Night Sky

"Ms. Morris tellingly renders scenes from the life of an impecunious, single urban mother....[Ivy] knows the frightening impulse to silence or abandon the insatiable, endlessly needy creature with whom she now shares her life. And the example set by her own mother is troubling: she deserted Ivy and her father when Ivy was 7 years old....This act of desertion provides the power and the pain of the novel....There is some lovely writing in 'A Mother's Love'; Ivy Slovak's life is not one a reader will soon forget."Morris, Mary is the author of 'Night Sky', published 1997 under ISBN 9780312156091 and ISBN 031215609X.