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Mother and Daughters | Mother and Daughters

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Aug.10.2010
From Publishers Weekly: Kessler, the author of five narrative nonfiction books, explores the mother/daughter relationship at a particularly vulnerable point—the cusp of her daughter's entry into adolescence. At 12, Lizzie is often at odds with her author mom, who describes her chilly relationship...
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Mar.08.2008
In her tenth book, Dr. Lillian Rubin examines the lives of woman as they grown from daughters into mothers and move on into the intimidating territory of old age. Tangled Lives, which reads with the narrative intensity of good fiction, uses pivotal events from the author's own life to illuminate...