A Search for the Motherline

About the Book

In A Search for the Motherline, the narrator, an at-home mother of three young children, deals with the problems of life in a development from 1974 to 1975. While her husband copes with the problems of a modern dental practice, the narrator deals with house and children. She faces the trauma of coping with a difficult middle child, an unplanned pregnancy, and the husband pressuring her to find a job. She searches for balance between the demands of children and husband and her own interests as a person. She looks forward to a future of writing, a return to her career in librarianship, and the opportunity of training as a Jungian analyst. The setbacks in her life are more than compensated for by the happiness she finds seeing her three healthy, beautiful children develop and begin school.

About the Author

Katherine Murphy Dickson was born and raised in Boston, where she graduated from Simmons College. Her first diary at age fifteen began her lifelong fascination with journals. Throughout graduate school, a career in professional librarianship, marriage, birthing, and raising three children, the journal has been the intact line of her life. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her husband, William.