Mom's the Word: A Memoir of Love and Survival
Stoddard, E. M.![Mom's the Word: A Memoir of Love and Survival](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/435/43553287/CHSBZCOP0343553287.jpg)
As the third of nine children in a tight-knit Catholic family, author E.M. Stoddard learns how to be resilient early in life. Although her childhood has many happy memories, Stoddard is determined not to re-live her mother's life-burdened with too much responsibility and dependent on an emotionally distant husband.Soon after her high school graduation, Stoddard marries her boyfriend Patrick, whose personal problems begin to cause trouble for t...