Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories
Maeve Beaufort’s family is messy and complicated, rife with competing demands, difficult compromises, and on-the-spot judgment calls. She is the single mother of Noelle, who has anaphylactic reactions to nuts, and Norm, a nonconformist child whom everyone wants to diagnose. Her father is spending his retirement on high-ticket items he doesn’t need, her children’s teachers are suggesting medication, and her mood-swinging mother is threatening to move in. Newly diagnosed herself with Crohn’s disease, Maeve feels as though she is failing herself, her parents, and her children. But with spirit and determination—and a healthy dose of survival humor—she gives it her best go. Anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, underappreciated, underpaid, and underwater will find a kindred spirit in Maeve.
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Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories
Maeve Beaufort’s family is messy and complicated, rife with competing demands, difficult compromises, and on-the-spot judgment calls. She is the single mother of Noelle, who has anaphylactic reactions to nuts, and Norm, a nonconformist child whom everyone wants to diagnose. Her father is spending his retirement on high-ticket items he doesn’t need, her children’s teachers are suggesting medication, and her mood-swinging mother is threatening to move in. Newly diagnosed herself with Crohn’s disease, Maeve feels as though she is failing herself, her parents, and her children. But with spirit and determination—and a healthy dose of survival humor—she gives it her best go. Anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, underappreciated, underpaid, and underwater will find a kindred spirit in Maeve.
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Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories

Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories

by Kathryn Trueblood
Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories

Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories

by Kathryn Trueblood

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Overview

Maeve Beaufort’s family is messy and complicated, rife with competing demands, difficult compromises, and on-the-spot judgment calls. She is the single mother of Noelle, who has anaphylactic reactions to nuts, and Norm, a nonconformist child whom everyone wants to diagnose. Her father is spending his retirement on high-ticket items he doesn’t need, her children’s teachers are suggesting medication, and her mood-swinging mother is threatening to move in. Newly diagnosed herself with Crohn’s disease, Maeve feels as though she is failing herself, her parents, and her children. But with spirit and determination—and a healthy dose of survival humor—she gives it her best go. Anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed, underappreciated, underpaid, and underwater will find a kindred spirit in Maeve.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826360977
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 09/01/2019
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 200
File size: 574 KB

About the Author

Kathryn Trueblood is the author of The Baby Lottery and The Sperm Donor's Daughter and Other Tales of Modern Family. A recipient of the Goldenberg Prize in Fiction and the Red Hen Press Short Story Award, she teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

Table of Contents

Time Bomb Baby
The Medicated Marriage
Take Daily as Needed
The No-Tell Hotel
Taking My Father Hostage
Fuck You! Till Next Christmas
A Shot to the Head
Pack Something Black
Totaled
Self-Defense
The Whore of Healing
Anything but That
Who Will Love Me Now?

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