{"id":71,"date":"2024-02-18T13:06:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=71"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:03:03","slug":"when-bad-mothers-happen-by-abigail-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/when-bad-mothers-happen-by-abigail-george\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When Bad Mothers Happen&#8221; by Abigail George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.73.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.73.jpg 262w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.73-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>For almost as long as she can remember, Jean has been feeling unloved by her unpredictable, manipulative and temperamental mother. Her depressive father has his limitations; Jean&#8217;s relationship with a brother and sister is tense. Isolated and depressed, Jean builds a rich inner world comprising family dysfunction, bullying, hospitalization, escapism, promiscuity, and deep devotion to creative pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Bad Mothers Happen&#8221; is a heart-wrenching story about what might have been. Narrative, poetic prose, and streams of consciousness overlap to deliver a forceful message about the consequences of abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on February 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Available in paperback and Kindle format (202 pages) via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CVWQZPSX\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview For almost as long as she can remember, Jean has been feeling unloved by her unpredictable, manipulative and temperamental mother. Her depressive father has his limitations; Jean&#8217;s relationship with a brother and sister is tense. Isolated and depressed, Jean builds a rich inner world comprising family dysfunction, bullying, hospitalization, escapism, promiscuity, and deep devotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrative-nonfiction","tag-abigail-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}