The novel “Mom, I Love You” occupies a special place in the work of William Saroyan, a writer whose name ranks with such titans of world literature as Faulkner, Steinbeck, Hemingway. The wisdom of childhood is the basis of the plot of this wonderful book. The world, seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl, is transformed before our eyes, for the main principle of this wonderful transformation is simple, like childhood itself: “Look for goodness everywhere, and having found it, bring it into the light, and let it be free and proud.”