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Motherland: A Memoir
By Pamela Marin
Free Press, 229 pages, $25
“My mother is an idea to me, like God,” writes Pamela Marin in her tale of coming to terms with her mother’s life–and death. Only 14 when her mother died of breast cancer, Marin eventually embarked on a cross-country journey to learn about the mother who disappeared–and on the way found out how to be a mother herself.