I actually have a post on mothers in fantasy here: http://attackfish.livejournal.com/63694.html . The missing mother is a common genre convention in children's books in large part to facilitate children being able to go off on (extremely unsafe) adventures but also carries with it some nasty cultural narratives.
Though A:tLA is about as far from Paranormal Romance you can get and still be fantasy... And in Paranormal Romance, at least for now, awful mothers win out over missing ones.
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Date: 2011-07-19 12:20 am (UTC)Though A:tLA is about as far from Paranormal Romance you can get and still be fantasy... And in Paranormal Romance, at least for now, awful mothers win out over missing ones.