Unnamed Mother of Narrator 2

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Unnamed Mother of Narrator 2
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Unnamed Mother of Narrator 2
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The unnamed twelve-year-old narrator of "Race at Morning" calls his mother "maw" (307). She abandons him and his father two years before the story takes place, when she "took off in the middle of the night with a durn Vicksburg roadhouse jake without even waiting to cook breakfast" for her son (308).