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I started this blog in 2013 to share my reflections on reading, writing and psychology, along with my journey to become a published novelist.​  I soon graduated to about twenty book reviews a month and a weekly 99-word story. Ten years later, I've transferred my writing / publication updates to my new website but will continue here with occasional reviews and flash fiction pieces, and maybe the odd personal post.

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Mothers missed and missing: The Dutch House & Patsy

24/9/2019

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Two novels featuring mothers who leave a child/children when they’re still quite young, following the implications over several years. In the first, the narrator doesn’t know why his mother has disappeared, or even whether she’s still alive, and claims not to miss her as his older sister fills the gap where the mother belongs. The second is a dual narrative from the perspective of both mother and daughter as each suffers, in different ways, from the mother’s decision to leave Jamaica for New York. The theme gives me an excuse to sound off about attachment and share some of my own fiction, including a new 99-word story.

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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Only a baby when she left the family, Danny has no memory of his mother. After his nursemaid was dismissed for hitting him at the age of four, it fell to his sister Maeve, seven years older, along with the two housekeepers, to raise him but Danny has no complaints about their care. Things turned sour when their father brought home a second wife and her two young daughters: Andrea seemed more in love with the house than anyone else.
 
Danny was fifteen when his father died and Andrea turfed him out. It came as a shock to both the children that he’d signed over the large house and his thriving real-estate business to his wife. Danny was left with nothing but an educational trust fund set up for him and his two step-sisters and Maeve is determined that he will take the lion’s share. So he’s packed off to an expensive boarding school and from there to undertake a lengthy training in medicine.
 
Their early abandonment and shared injustice has created a strong bond between the siblings and, although Danny marries and has children of his own, there’s little space for anyone else. A ritual developed in the aftermath of their initial exile becomes a shared addiction: over the months and years and decades they frequently drive to their old neighbourhood and chew the cud outside the lavish mansion they once called home. What is it exactly that draws them back, and is it the same for both?
 
Built for a cigarette manufacturer in the early 1920s, the house in small-town Pennsylvania is known as Dutch because of former owners, rather than for its style. When the last remaining member of the family died in the 1950s, Maeve and Danny’s father, newly rich on a property deal, snapped it up with complete with fittings and furnishings which somehow stayed – although they did manage to get rid of the raccoons, and their fleas, that had taken over the third-floor ballroom. Other than that, the house is a constant and only people change.
 
I discovered Ann Patchett’s fiction first through her Orange Prize winning Bel Canto – still one of my all-time favourite novels – and I’ve read four of her other six since then. From my, albeit incomplete, reading of her oeuvre, I’m judging The Dutch House her second best. On the surface, a story of broken families, it addresses how perspectives change between people and over time. In particular, it asks how we best recover from a childhood in which one of life’s building blocks went missing, or was absent from the start. How do we find a path between denial that it matters and turning the grievance into a grudge that takes over our life? Thanks to publishers Bloomsbury for my review copy.

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In his refusal to accept that his lack of a mother matters – the attitude that, never having known her, he can’t miss her – Danny reminded me of Steve, the narrator of my own novel, Underneath. Steve has never known his father and his mother’s depression renders her emotionally unavailable when he’s a baby. But Steve’s denial of the psychological implications is much more damaging than Danny’s.

There’s also an older sister raising her brother after their mother’s death in my possibly third novel, Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home, although the age gap between Matty and Henry is almost twice the one between Danny and Maeve. And if that isn’t enough to convince you I’m on target to become the English Ann Patchett, I’ve also based a story loosely on the Cinderella narrative, although in “Her Knight in Shining Armour” – which you can read for free as it was published after my short story collection, Becoming Someone – my character Ella is probably more wicked than the stepmother.

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Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Patsy is so excited when she gets her American visa, she barely gives a thought to how her leaving will impact on her five-year-old daughter, Tru. For years she’s waited to be reunited with Cicely, her first love. But Brooklyn isn’t quite what Cicely described in her letters, nor is her controlling husband simply a guarantee she can stay. Patsy is forced to find her own way to survive as an undocumented immigrant[1], working as a nanny to the offspring of rich white New Yorkers while her own child back in Jamaica wonders if she’ll ever return.
 
Dumped on a father she barely knows, Tru plays soccer in the intervals between waiting for a phone call that never comes. In a society with strict gender codes, she’s shunned by her classmates for being the wrong type of girl. She’s also a disappointment to her stepmother who, with three boys already, agrees to the arrangement only for the chance to nurture the child’s femininity. When – after a single Christmas card in over ten years – Tru receives something from her mother, it’s the last thing she wants.
 
Patsy’s character would make a great group discussion: can an abandoning mother ever be excused? Still an adolescent when she became pregnant, and with abortion illegal[2], Patsy was forced into a role for which she wasn’t ready and didn’t want. Poverty, guilt, and disappointment that migration[3] hasn’t brought the outcome she hoped for, contribute to her neglect of her child.
 
Despite an interesting premise, fine writing and an insight into an unfamiliar world, my reading experience of Patsy was like the eponymous character’s experience of New York, albeit in diluted form, and like Tru’s in longing for something that didn’t come. I wanted more depth and less length – imagining the author telling her publisher she tried to write a shorter novel but didn’t have time – as I waited for the wow moment I’d had with her debut Here Comes the Sun. Thanks to Oneworld for my review copy.

[1] There's also a short story about an undocumented migrant in my short story collection, Becoming Someone, mentioned above.

[2] As I wrote in this post On Underneath’s first birthday, I’m confessing a guilty secret underneath, an often neglected argument in favour of easy access to abortion is that the children of reluctant mothers can suffer psychologically too.

[3] For another recently-published novel on migration, see Helon Habila’s Travellers
 

Gender identity is a central theme of my Polari-prize[*] shortlisted debut novel, Sugar and Snails, which you can read about in this post: Gender: Like God and the square root of minus one?.

[*] I met an interesting man at an event recently who said he was keen to learn the Polari language, even though there are apparently no longer any native speakers. To my shame, it wasn't until this conversation that I discovered that its roots go way back, and beyond the LGBTQ communities.

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The new flash fiction challenge to write a 99-word story about an interlude made me think of my short story “In the Interim “ but “Peace-and-Quiet Pancake”, although about attachment to fathers rather than mothers, is a better fit with the overall theme of this post. (Both available to read for free as they aren’t included in my short story collection, Becoming Someone, not because I don’t like the stories, but because they’re not good match for the identity theme.)

If you know my interests, you might have picked up on the word attachment in the previous paragraph and have a sense of what’s coming. Even so, this week’s flash could benefit from some contextualisation. Because my subject, Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation, seems, at first glance, very strange. The text, and educational video that follows it, is taken from a four-year-old post on self-compassion, something we all need. You might also be interested in Courtney Ackerman’s dissection of relevant theory and its application in social work and in the classroom on the Positive Psychology blog, which was recently brought to my attention.
 
The attachment system has evolved to improve our survival chances as a species that is totally dependent on others from birth. Responsive parents provide the experience of soothing and model coping with threat. Parents who don’t respond to a baby’s cry, or do so in an aggressive or highly anxious way themselves, inadvertently teach the child that their distress is unmanageable and that they are beyond help.
 
Research psychologist Mary Ainsworth developed an ingenious method of assessing whether or not an infant has developed secure attachments. In the Strange Situation, babies play in a comfortable room until, at a given signal, the mother leaves. What distinguishes securely from insecurely attached infants, is not how they behave when the mother (or other primary carer) leaves, but whether they are able to settle on her return.

While it’s virtually impossible to write from the point of view of a one-year-old, I’ve had a bash in my flash.


Ainsworth’s Strange Situation

The playroom’s made of cuddles and bright shiny colours. Choo-choo trains and farm animals and smiling dolls. Mummy’s teddy kicks a ball to me. When my teddy goes to kick it back, she’s gone.

The playroom’s made of sharp hurty edges and darkness. Witches and goblins and things that make me jump when they go bang. Why did Mummy leave me? What did I do wrong?

The door opens, bringing Mummy’s smell, her flowery dress, her outstretched arms. Is it the Good Mummy who shoos away the monsters? Or is it the Bad Mummy who’s one of them herself?
If you’re curious about your own attachment style, Courtney Ackerman’s article provides some links to online questionnaires, although these can’t replace clinically-administered tests which, I believe, put more emphasis on childhood memories. I’ve found watching videos of babies and parents in the Strange Situation gives me a sense of my infant insecurity which, in a loving relationship and after years of therapy, is less apparent on adult questionnaires. The following educational video comes with a warning: it can be upsetting to recognise yourself in either the parent or baby role.

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12 Comments
Charli Mills link
25/9/2019 07:54:54 am

I'm cheering for you to become the English Ann Patchett! I have The Dutch House on my to be read list which is happily seeing activity (reading). What a rich blog post full of links to your stories the explore a theme of great interest, that of attachment. Your flash is a chilling perspective from the child that best explains how development gets damaged.

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Anne Goodwin
25/9/2019 09:59:50 am

Thanks, Charli, we can dream! And as often happens the post ended up much bigger than I’d envisaged. Thanks for the prompt and let me know what you think of The Dutch House.

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Norah Colvin
25/9/2019 01:16:09 pm

I was really interested to read this post, Anne. I did pick up on that word 'attachment' immediately. It is a recurrent theme for you and one that I am also interested in. I have recently listened to a book by Australian author and teacher John Marsden called The Art of Growing Up which I really enjoyed. It is about 'good' parenting and 'bad' parenting and the effects on children. (a very simplified statement). In it he referred to Alice Miller, after whom he has named one of his schools. I remember asking you in a comment on a post if you were familiar with her work. Sadly, I now can't remember which post and couldn't see it in this month's collection, so maybe it was last. Anyway, no matter. I have started listening to her book The Body Never Lies, which is also fascinating and about the effects of 'bad' parenting on one's health, physical as well as mental and emotional. I think I'd enjoy both of these books you have reviewed because of my interest in child development and parenting but might put The Dutch House before Patsy (still so many others on the list though). No doubt, if you became the English Ann Patchett, I'd be reading yours first.
I really enjoyed your story Her Knight in Shining Armour. It is very clever. I got the feeling I'd read it before. Is that possible? Or is it similar to something else you've written?
You flash shows a very good understanding of a one-year-old's voice. Life must be so confusing for little ones; just as it is for big ones.
You have many other wonderful links and information in this post. So rich - but I think that's enough for me to comment on at the moment. :)

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Anne Goodwin
26/9/2019 01:36:42 pm

Thanks for your thoughtful and encouraging comments, Norah, and yes I certainly went overboard with the links in this post. Interesting that while you delivered your lovely 99 word story unadorned this week, I went to the other extreme with layers of wrapping, ribbons and bows!
I love the notion of a school being named after Alice Miller – I wondered how easy/difficult it would have been to put the ideas into practice when governments push educators in a different direction. I haven’t read the book you mentioned, but it might be one for me. There doesn’t seem to be much about parenting and psychosomatic illness.
So, yes, we have discussed her before. I referenced her in my review of You Would Have Missed Me
https://annegoodwin.weebly.com/annecdotal/time-travel-translated-vintage-1954-you-would-have-missed-me
which you went on to read. You asked me for Alice Miller recommendations and you also mentioned her again in another recent comments, but I can’t find it either – perhaps it was on your blog?
Anyway, because my blog doesn’t like hyperlinks (there might be a way around it and have never tried to find out) I’ll tweet you the link for a reminder of our discussion.
Thanks for reading my Cinderella story for a second time – oops, I probably have mentioned it before.

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Norah Colvin
30/9/2019 12:54:47 pm

Hi Anne, Thanks for your response and for alerting me to both comments on Twitter, though I tend to think I visit your blog, however infrequently (more infrequently than I'd like), I'm on Twitter even less frequently. I miss those Twitter conversations we had when we first met. Life was different back then and Twitter is pretty much on the back-burner for me.
I had forgotten that you had mentioned Alice Miller and didn't make the connection when I read about her in John Marsden's book. I'm a bit intrigued as to why he would name a school after her. When I saw him at the writer's festival recently, someone in the audience attempted to ask him about the naming of the school but he didn't get to answer it. At the time, I hadn't read her book, but now I'm intrigued. I am very much enjoying "The Body Never Lies. The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting." I think you might enjoy it although you are not into non-fiction in the same way as I am. She is actually delving into the lives of writers such as Kafka, Dostoevsky and Proust; political figures such as Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and some of the artists and musicians too, I think. I'm finding it all very interesting, but challenging too, thinking about my own parenting and realising things from the way I was parented. I think I knew things weren't right for me so did my best to break the cycle. I certainly wasn't perfect though. My children will testify to that; and if they don't, they'll have to read Miller's book. It's all about the fourth commandment and the damage it does.
I enjoyed reading Cinderella for the second time. I don't think it's the first I've read more than once. :)
Must away. I'm bleary-eyed. Would love to discuss more Alice Miller with you. I wish we lived closer. I could accompany you on your walks and engage in wonderful conversations. But maybe you'd rather engage with your own thoughts. Many of us do. :) Have a wonderful week. I'll hopefully catch up on your latest posts during it.

Anne Goodwin
30/9/2019 04:45:10 pm

Thanks for coming back, Norah. It is extremely challenging confronting those parenting failures and some of us never manage to reach that point. I hadn’t a clue about mine for a long time, not even when I was starting to practice as a psychologist, and it wasn’t until well into my therapy that we began to appreciate how deep it went.
Yes it would be great to have the space to discuss this stuff out in the real world. You need to persuade one of your imperfectly but good enough parenting offspring or their partners to have another sabbatical in the UK. Take care!

Jacqui Murray link
26/9/2019 03:53:50 pm

Both books sound like interesting evaluations of the importance of mother. I still think of mine and she's been dead for decades.

Interesting video, too. I've seen this one, maybe in one of my ECE classes. It's older but I don't think anything's changed.

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Anne Goodwin
30/9/2019 04:35:49 pm

Thanks for visiting, Jacqui, and apologies for the delayed response. And mothers linger in our minds whether alive or dead! I’m afraid I don’t know what ECE stands for but, wherever it was, I hope the video contributed to your learning.

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Norah Colvin
2/10/2019 12:03:31 pm

There was no way for me to reply on either of your replies, Anne. Maybe Weebly thought I'd had enough to say on your blog. :)
All I wanted to say was, yes, it would be great to discuss this stuff with you in the real world. :)

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Anne Goodwin
4/10/2019 05:58:44 pm

Um, sorry, the blog has a mind of its own.

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Norah Colvin
6/10/2019 11:18:09 am

They do. Do they take after their bloggers?

Anne Goodwin
7/10/2019 06:52:24 pm

Ha, maybe.


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