A Week in the Life of Amelia Nash

"My mother, of course, was never boring. At the house in Lucas Street she took a hammer to the wall in the middle of the night."

Amy hasn't spoken to her mother for seventeen years, but a sense of duty brings her to the hospital when she's told that her mother is unconscious and dying. As she sits, solitary, at the bedside, she tells the story of her turbulent childhood, dragged along in the wake of her volatile, destructive mother.

After an acrimonious divorce, Amy's mother rushes through a ...