Frozen — Carla Tomaso

Frozen is a fast-paced funhouse ride through a psychological minefield, one in which the technology of the future collides with arrested development as old as time itself. Just when Elizabeth thinks she might finally be free of her narcissistic mother, Helen, who has died, she's informed that "Mommie Dearest" has been cryogenically frozen and has insisted that her daughter thaw her and raise her from infancy. Author Carla Tomaso has never met a taboo she didn't shatter to smithereens, and in this super-smart dark-comedy---which includes a cat-eating python, sexy lifeguards and murder-she turns sentiment on its head as she encourages us to liberate ourselves from our own mommy complexes.