Anna Fields

Missing Mom Anna Fields

This is the story of missing my mother. One day, in a way unique to you, it will be your story, too. So begins Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates personal and candid new novel. Nikki Eaton, a single, 31-year-old, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting young woman, never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet following the unexpected loss of her mother, her identity is transformed during the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that brings sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even -- from an unexpected source -- a nurturing love. Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller, The Falls. Anna Fields (1965-2006) trained at Actor's Theatre of Louisville and spent a number of years performing in Washington, D. C. In addition to the more than one hundred audiobooks she narrated, Anna's voice has been heard on public television, CD-ROM games, and commercials. “Joyce Carol Oates is a fearless writer. . . [with] impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers. †-- Los Angeles Times Book Review “ What keeps us coming back to Oates country is her uncanny gift for making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was life itself. †-- The New York Times Book Review