02014cam a2200349 i 4500 608429252 TxAuBib 20221102120000.0 220216s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022002957 9780593467022 pbk. 0593467027 pbk. TxAuBib rda Hogarth, Ainslie,. Motherthing / Ainslie Hogarth. First Vintage Books edition. New York : Vintage Books, 2022. 273 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura's hold on the family for good"-- Provided by publisher. 20221102. Parents-in-law Fiction. Suicide Fiction. Ghost stories. Horror tales. Domestic fiction. Paranormal fiction. Horror fiction. Hogarth, Ainslie, First Vintage Books edition.