MotherLoad Hardcover – 1 May 2015

MotherLoad is sumptuously southern and fraught with emotion, conflict and sometimes even resolution. Her choice of prose sent this reader on the path of experiences sometimes familiar and often times hauntingly close to heart. Caswell trims a lifetime of these experiences into small vignettes that truly prompts the dragging out of a "hankie" yet not forgetting to bring a smile to the lips of the reader.

Gritty, gripping and thought-provoking. Caswell captures the uneven landscape of parenting, the struggles of being the parent of children (small and grown) and the stories that keep us awake at night and wondering...