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A Transactional Mom: I Collect Payment Ten Years Later

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A Transactional Mom: I Collect Payment Ten Years Later is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

Emily grows up under her mother's "quid pro quo" rule: every dish washed, every floor mopped, every perfect score carries a price, and love itself must be earned. When she faints at school from malnutrition, her mother tallies the hospital bill at her bedside instead of offering comfort, while a girl in the next bed is spoon-fed chicken soup by a weeping mother. At home, her younger brother Arnold Baird struts in expensive sneakers, and Emily finally tears up the family portrait and chooses the university farthest from home.

Ten years later, her mother calls in tears: Arnold has swindled her pension and sold the house to elope, leaving her alone and homeless. Emily offers her a rag and a rule of her own—fifty cents for every window wiped, rent earned the way she once earned everything.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

A round of doing the dishes earns me 50 cents. Mopping the floor once grants me one dollar. If I get a full score in my exams, that'll be five dollars.

In order to buy a pair of white sneakers that I had had my eye on for a long time, I spent three months picking up trash from the streets.

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Contents

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Which chapters of A Transactional Mom: I Collect Payment Ten Years Later are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

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What is A Transactional Mom: I Collect Payment Ten Years Later about?

Emily grows up under her mother's "quid pro quo" rule: every dish washed, every floor mopped, every perfect score carries a price, and love itself must be earned. When she faints at school from malnutrition, her mother tallies the hospital bill at her bedside instead of offering comfort, while a girl in the next bed is spoon-fed chicken soup by a weeping mother. At home, her younger brother Arnold Baird struts in expensive sneakers, and Emily finally tears up the family portrait and chooses the university farthest from home.

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