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Television producer Mary Pflum Peterson's memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them. Peterson describes her chaotic childood and battle to rescue her mother from compulsive hoarding. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives are celebrated, even as Mary tries in vain to save Anne from herself. Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story—and a reminder...
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Approaching his thirtieth birthday, Sopan Deb had found comfort in his career as a writer for the New York Times and as a stand-up comedian. But his stage material highlighting his South Asian culture only served to mask the insecurities borne from his family history. Sure, Sopan knew the basics: his parents, both Bengali, separately immigrated to North America in the 1960s and 1970s. They were brought together in a messy and ultimately doomed arranged...
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A poignant meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters—and the inescapable effects of time—from the author of A Wrinkle in Time.
In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L’Engle chronicles a season of extremes. Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks, her Connecticut farmhouse, to care for L’Engle’s ninety-year-old mother. As summer days fade to sleepless...
In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L’Engle chronicles a season of extremes. Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks, her Connecticut farmhouse, to care for L’Engle’s ninety-year-old mother. As summer days fade to sleepless...
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If it's not one thing, it's your mother. Her name is Eve. Her epic temper tantrums have already gotten her banned from three cab companies in Portland. And she's here to announce that she's dying. Ariel doesn't want to take care of her crazy dying mother, but she knows she will. It's the right thing to do, isn't it? And, anyway, how long could it go on? Amidst the chaos of clowns and hospice workers, pie and too much whiskey, Ariel's own ten-year...
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"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir, the star of Orange Is the New Black and author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of life and loss, secrets and betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to Dubuque, Iowa,...
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"When Elizabeth Marcuss tyrannical parents toss caution asidealong with everything she says she struggles to make sense of their poignant, often hilarious plunge into old age in Mexico. Bizarre new friends appear; absurd disasters follow. Dont Say A Word! illuminates the maddening challenge of watching our parents final decline, a challenge familiar to frazzled adult-children everywhere."--
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