The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with the son who’s punishing her for withholding his father’s true identity. A single mother torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties, the increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over the legacy she will bestow upon her son. Portraying the most intense and even shameful moments of motherhood, and the things we leave unsaid even to those we want most to hear them, the novel is also a celebration of one woman’s private reckoning with the source of her life’s most profound pain – as well as its greatest pleasure.
- ISBN10 1883285895
- ISBN13 9781883285890
- Publish Date 23 July 2020 (first published 9 June 2020)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Delphinium Books, Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English