Is the author, publisher, editor and everyone else associated with this disgraceful book unaware that India was RIPPED APART during the British Raj? A stay-at-home dad to Rosie and Emily, who unsuccessfully tries to ingratiate himself into Amanda's circle. His wife, Jill, an unseen character, treats him terribly and seems to resent both him and their children; they divorce in the third series.

I thought when i moved here that I would find the things I wanted, but I have only become more and more confused. I keep pouring things into my body to fill it up, to make it full of something that will make me feel less...alone. Less unhappy. But it doesn't work. Smoke & rum and work and even people. None of it works." 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. I have read many books that take place in different parts of India and somewhat expected to read the traditional new wife under the mother in law’s rules story but this one fell outside of that trope. Told in dual POVs of both Rachel and her mother in law, Swati, we are present when Swati shows up one day to live with Rachel and her husband Dhruv. Initially the pair of women are predictable in their actions and thoughts but it is not long before we see them each being affected by the other. This article is about the British sitcom. For the Freeform drama series, see Motherland: Fort Salem.a b Martinson, Jane (6 October 2016). "BBC's Motherland to return as full series". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 October 2016. It talked about the terror unknown from the new motherland of how to raise her child amid the violence and danger in today's America and also what she inherited from her family, ancestors simply migrant Brazilian past. It also reflects passing on familial legacy to the next generation.

Hogan, Michael (23 December 2022). "Motherland: Last Christmas, review: the delicious dark heart of festive comedy". The Telegraph . Retrieved 24 December 2022. Mother” – she is never named, her family of origin and pre-marital life sketched so lightly as to suggest a wilful, defiant incuriosity – is almost without redeeming features: spiteful, devious, petty, mean, treacherous. Maybe her most damaging characteristic is her ability to foster division among her six children (the seventh, Angela, died in infancy and is therefore venerated), whose squabbles, estrangements and reconciliations are constantly being reconfigured in new patterns. Her methods of control – frequently likened by Jay to those of a brutal dictator – rely on constant wrong-footing, the capricious dispersal and withholding of favours and rewards, the sudden thump of a punishment, usually undeserved. Her ends are obscure, and are perhaps simply the pursuit and retention of power. One can read Mother Land in a state of appalled fascination 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 - Mother Land focuses on motherhood and immigration. I noticed that it's written in first person and from the perspective of and immigrant mother to an American child.

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This was a very difficult book to stomach given that Jay's (Paul Theroux's?) family dynamics are astoundingly similar to the dynamics at play in my own family. On the one hand, it was incredibly refreshing to see something written that so accurately elucidated what my experience has been - there were quite a few times that I shouted out "Yes! That's exactly right!" or "Wow and I thought I was the only person who had a family like this!" But . . .