The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone

Randy Susan Meyers, Eleanor Caudill

eAudio - 2025

Seven Children. Five Mothers. One idyllic commune. What could go wrong?Annabel Cooper wants to save the world. Her story begins in 1964 with her journey to Freedom Summer in Mississippi, where the disappearance of her first love ignites a lifelong fight for justice. Years later, she, her husband, and four other couples form a Boston political collective where they live together with their children in a rambling Boston house. As the era's social upheaval intensifies, they move their children to Vermont, where they can remain safe from the world's threats; their parents continue their political work, taking turns traveling to Vermont to care for the children.But not all danger comes from the outside.Annabel's daughter, Ivy, yea...rns for normalcy, not the confines of Vermont. But mostly, she longs for Annabel's attention—until a cataclysmic event alters the course of their lives and she learns the limits of her many mothers and fathers.The... more