Guus Bosman

Nice novel by John Updike. Paul, the main character, has a difficult relationship with his mother:

"My heart was thudding; my tingling fingers felt swollen around the cold core of the wine-glass stem. My mother's silences, in which her soul plunged backwards from her eyes and mouth and revisited the darkness in which, but for her grace, I would be buried unborn, were as terrible as ever."

The book deals with divorce, 'toxic mother', etc. Not really my style of story, but beautifully written. Read the last pages in Georgetown.