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2017.
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A searing memoir of the author's efforts to understand her late mother's life and murder describes the traumatic loss of her mother in childhood, the 12-year manhunt for the killer and the author's investigations into her mother's past in the dark corners of a small Maine community.
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When her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer, Sholl was faced with a dread worse than the disease: that of taking on responsibility for her mother's house, filthy and chaotic from years of hoarding. Sholl had grown up in the house until her parents' divorce, when she went to live with her father. She spent her adolescence embarrassed by her mother's mental illness: the hoarding, compulsive shopping, indecisiveness, and occasional cruelty and abuse....
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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.
Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's...
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's...
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's...
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2024.
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English
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Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins,...
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"Combining memoir, history, social commentary, and true crime, Diane Cameron unravels the secrets of her stepfather--a former Marine who served in China from 1937-39 and was later convicted of murder. The stark examination of her relationship with her stepfather and mother will stir public debate, as she investigates how the far reach of mental illness can consume a family"--
"In March of 1953, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China...
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A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, this is a tale of a woman who reinvented herself so completely that her previous life seemed to vanish, and of a daughter who reclaims an abandoned past. Emma Brockes grew up hearing only pieces of her mother's story. After her death, Emma begins a dangerous journey into the land her mother fled from to unearth the truth.
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"San Francisco Chronicle" columnist Adair Lara recounts her attempts to juggle love and discipline during her daughter Morgan's teen years while coping with the return of her own absent father, discussing Morgan's drug use and other rebellious behavior as well as the relationship difficulties in their stepfamily.
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