Where's Mother?

Margaret Drake is one capable woman. She's happily marriedto engineer Tom, teaches college English and is raising threebright, good-looking, self-possessed kids.Then the idyll is shattered, Tom decides to try the single life andteenage daughter Laura is instantly plunged into management of thehousehold while Margaret reenters the social scene. The situationturns murkier when Margaret moves with her children to Nashvillein a foolhardy attempt to maintain a relationship with a young drifterwho fancies himself a budding country music star.The time is 1985. There are no cell phones, no laptops, no socialmedia. What happens unfolds first from Laura's viewpoint, then from Tom's, and finally from Margaret's. Where's Mother? is simultaneouslya coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale of mid-life delusions.Transformation is the thread that unites the reflections of eachstory-teller.