Muther

Danielle Campbell is not quite five years old when she is kidnapped and taken from her home at an orphanage in Vancouver by her mother, Nora, during one of their weekly visits. She was recently released from an asylum and is convinced that Danielle is actually her son rather than her daughter. Danny is told she is going on a trip but has no idea that it is a journey into insanity. Over the course of the next year, Danny lives through a horrible and baffling period, dealing at times with Nora, a woman who claims to be her grandmother, and another woman who says she is Dannys aunt, Claire. Afraid of the abuse that is constantly heaped on her and dealing with recurring nightmares of murder, Dannywho dresses as a boy at her mothers insistencefinds friends in their downstairs neighbors, Dolly and her son, Squeaky. As Nora becomes increasingly psychotic, it soon becomes clear that everyone around her is in grave danger. In this suspenseful novel, as one woman descends into madness, her young daughter must find the strength within her to prevent her mother from killing again.