The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a "year in Pr
Mother Daughter Me
β Scribed by Hafner, Katie
- Book ID
- 107523587
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780812984590
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β¦ Synopsis
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a ''year in Provence'' with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and ZoΓ«, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and ZoΓ« had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a seventy-seven-year-old woman set in her ways.
Filled with fairy-tale hope that she and her mother would become friends, and that Helen would grow close to her exceptional granddaughter, Katie embarked on an experiment in intergenerational living that she would soon discover was filled with land mines: memories of her parents' painful divorce, of her mother's erratic lifestyle, of dislocating moves back and forth across the country, and of...
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