A review by cutiejoy
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

2.0

I understand why this was critically panned. Mediocre structure, typically unlikeable protagonist. I almost quit when she brought her mother down to the basement because I thought it was so unbelievably stupid. I wish it had been better because it had the makings of a very good novel.
  

• "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia, as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother’s core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers. She had been beautiful when my father met her and still capable of love when I became their late-in-life child, but by the time she
  gazed up at me that day, none of this mattered."