Tippett’s Page Turning “Dreams of Mother” Creates a Following of Insomniac Readers

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One woman struggles in the aftermath of her mother’s death to string together the unraveling ragged threads which bind her family. In the process, she uncovers a secret which cracks the bedrock of her family’s dysfunction and her own identity.
PRLog - Sep. 16, 2014 - HAMPSTEAD, Md. -- Tina Ryon Tippett’s whirlwind of a novel begins in medias res of one woman’s life and at the end of her mother’s. The reader is immediately introduced to the world of the narrator, Delayna—always called Laney. Her four living siblings—Maggie, Tressa, Maura, and Wesley—their spouses, children, and Laney’s ex-husband, Mitch, with whom she is still in love, comprise everything that matters to Laney. Ma’s death is both the culmination of a lifetime of hardship and sorrow and the beginning of newfound struggles and opportunities alike. There are secrets slowly being unearthed in the wake of Ma’s passing, which will forever redefine Laney’s self-identity and shake the Frye family’s sense of unity.

The story pivots around Ma’s funeral day and its occurrences, which prompt Laney’s childhood memories and also incite a string of vivid dreams involving her mother, which shed light on Laney’s repressed feelings and foreshadow the uncovering of family secrets. Laney was raised in a troubled household. Her father was a mean drunk whose violent tirades broke what was left of his wife’s spirit and spurred his children’s turn to drugs, sex, misbehavior, and lack of self-confidence as detrimental coping mechanisms.

Of her siblings, Laney shares the strongest bond with her oldest sister, Maggie, and her closely aged brother, Phillip, who overdosed on Valium several years before Ma died. Maggie has always worked to bridge her and her sister’s thirteen year age gap; Laney has always turned to Maggie for advice and consoling about sex, relationships, and female identity. Phillip, with whom Laney literally shared breast milk as infants, bullied Laney growing up as older brothers do, and yet was fiercely protective. Phillip’s death rattles Laney more than either her father’s or mother’s; in her darkest moments, Laney thinks she understands her brother’s choice to overdose.

Laney’s persistent struggles with men are compounded of her drunk daddy’s anger and her Ma’s advice to settle. Due to insecurities residual of and instilled during her childhood, Laney does not actively seek out male attention. When she receives it anyway, she clings—whether to a physical man or to the daydreamt image of her ideal relationship. Regardless, Laney’s lack of self-confidence fuels Ma’s notion: that a woman can ask only for a man who is either nice or smart, and not both. But Laney finds just that in Mitch—the only person she would ever love and still be unable to conceive a child with. When begins her toxic relationship with David, Laney receives everything she lacked with Mitch and thought she desired, until she realizes like her Ma said: “grass ain’t always greener.”

As Laney’s insomnia persists, she becomes more willing to take her prescribed sleeping pills, but they only make her dreams more frequent and more vivid. She dreams of pregnancy mostly—a force which defines relationships throughout the story in either its presence or its lack. Laney searches for confidence and identity by comparison with Ma and Maggie, believing that the maternal instinct for which she yearns would atone for her mother’s sins.

“Dreams of Mother” deals with searching for an identity always defined by others and sometimes their lack but never by Laney, who has always felt dissociated from her own being. The story itself is about discovering the points at which life alternatively connect and disconnect. As Laney struggles to grieve for Ma’s death, she discovers a secret which cracks the already unstable foundation of her own identity and challenges her—more than anything ever has—to see herself as exactly who she is.

This book and many other Maple Creek Media titles are available from most major online book retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, and others. You can also order directly and conveniently from the Maple Creek Media Bookstore.

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Maple Creek Media, a division of Old Line Publishing, is a rapidly growing online publisher of books, eBooks, and periodicals. Maple Creek Media focuses primarily on artisanal publishing and providing custom designed material for authors and businesses. Maple Creek Media produces high quality publications and offers competitive self-publishing services to both new and established authors while incorporating digital print-on-demand technology for all their titles. Maple Creek Media works one-on-one with every individual to provide each author or business with a top quality print book, eBook, website or other publishable material.

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