Foreword
It was Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, who remarked, "The mats of men lead lives of quiet desperation." This statement appears to be just as true today as it was then. Perhaps it is eyen more valid today considering the pressures and frequent monotony of today's world.
The majority of today's men and women live out boring circumstances, and when the opportunity for change arises, they are often quick to seize the chance. For the characters in this stow, the opportunity is one which many would consider perverse and deranged for it is one of incest. But it provides a release and a need. All morals and scruples are cast aside in a moment of madness to grab pleasure before it is taken away.
MOTHER WAS BEST a novel about the quiet desperation in so many of us and the extremes to which it may drive us.
The Publisher