The Mothers Author:Keith Botsford The Mothers are the women in Jim Mounts's life: his adoring (and rejected) mother Felicita (ironical name for her, "happiness"), and the four women he has loved and lived with: Louise, Maria, Natasha, ( a rich mans wife) and Francine. Mount see that when "girls" become "Mothers" something changes in them. Botsford's portraits are seething, often... more » terrifyingly intense and mysogynisitc. The are also deeply loving, life-giving, and generous.« less