Mildred Pierce

''Mildred Pierce'' is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941.

A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, ''Mildred Pierce'' follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. The novel is one of four major works Cain wrote featuring opera as a key component in the plot (''Serenade'' (1937), ''Career in C Major'' (1938) and ''The Moth'' (1948) are the others.)

''Mildred Pierce'' is Cain’s first effort to write a novel in the third-person narrative form, a departure from his earlier works of the 1930s, all of them confessional narratives written in the first-person. Provided by Wikipedia