Transcript: Alan Cheuse Reviews Mary Morris' ``A Mother's Love''

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ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: There's been a lot of talk about single mothers lately. Fictional single mom Murphy Brown was skewered by Vice President Dan Quayle last year, and there have been several recent studies of the effect on children of being raised by a single parent, but there has been little recent fiction using the single mother as a subject. Now New York writer Mary Morris has published a novel with the main character named Ivy Slovak [sp] who is a single mother living with her newborn son in New York City. The book is called A Mother's Love. Alan Cheuse has this review.

ALAN CHEUSE, Reviewer: `The nights are longest,' Ivy Slovak tells us. ...

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