Mom Kills Kids And Self

by Alan Saperstein

Book Overview

MOM KILLS KIDS AND SELF. We've seen the headline a thousand times. But this time the story is about us. About a woman who is driven to murder and suicide. About a man who comes home from work to find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002606880X
• ISBN13: 9780026068802
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Compelling and Disturbing Read

"Mom Kills Kids and Self" was an unassuming book I saw on the library shelf. Intrigues by the title, I picked it up and opened the cover. The book sucked me in with the first few pages. Our main character, never named, has returned home to find his wife has killed herself after murdering their two sons. What unfolds afterwards is looking through the eyes of a man driven to insanity by this act. His behavior and actions are strange and unexpected as his thoughts fantically trace back through time, trying to find the cause of his family's death. Everything in this story is juxtasposed, from his perspective on his wife's life, his boy's lives, and from his own life, from his work, aand from his philosophy on women. The story kept me captivated, I recommend this book to anyone who would enjoy a combination of King and Vonnegut.