Mother's Day is a novel not about mothers but about the impact losing them has on the stunted emotional development of two old friends. Or maybe they're just using that as an excuse. Told alternately from the perspectives of Jeremy and Dana, a pair of friends with a long history and now turning 30, Mother's Day follows these two through a weekend back in their home town. They are visiting yet another dying mother of a classmate, bizarrely the seventh in this tiny group to be stricken before the age of 60--most well before. But the weekend becomes much more about their own issues and...