Without My Mother

Author : Melissa Cistaro
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443458726

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Without My Mother by Melissa Cistaro Pdf

How Do You Forgive a Parent Who Has Failed You? One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother stepped into her baby-blue Dodge Dart and drove away, leaving behind Melissa and her brothers. Rarely seeing their mother as they were growing up, they blamed themselves for her leaving, turning to each other for support and seeking out often destructive ways to cope with living without their mom. Decades later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. She has just days to find out what happened that summer and to confront the unthinkable fear that a “leaving gene” might be lying dormant inside of her. She knew she came from a long line of mothers who left their children. But when Melissa stumbles across a folder titled “Letters Never Sent” tucked away in her mother’s filing cabinet, she begins to feel the wreckage of her mother’s painful journey, before and after she abandoned her family. Alternating between Melissa’s tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother’s final days, Without My Mother is a haunting yet ultimately uplifting story of one woman’s quest to discover how our parents’ choices impact our own and how we can survive those choices to forge our own paths.

Author : Ruth Reichl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594202168

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Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl Pdf

Bestselling author Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew.

Author : Blake Morrison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780099440727

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Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison Pdf

Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.

Author : Albert Cohen
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935744542

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Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen Pdf

Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother’s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother." From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Lisa Heffernan,Mary Dell Harrington
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781250188953

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Grown and Flown by Lisa Heffernan,Mary Dell Harrington Pdf

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.

Author : Jennette McCurdy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982185824

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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy Pdf

A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013

Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780547524368

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Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem

Author : Sonya Sones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442493858

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What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones Pdf

Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.

Author : Colleen Sydor
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554531837

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My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of My Fuzzed-up Life by Colleen Sydor Pdf

A teenager is convinced that her free-spirited mother is the reason her life sucks.

Author : Michele Filgate
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781982107352

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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate Pdf

“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.

Author : Miranda Smith
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1800193106

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Not My Mother: A Completely Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-dropping Twist by Miranda Smith Pdf

What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you? I'd heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother's arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me. Today, my beautiful daughter turned one. We were unwrapping gifts and blowing out candles when the knock came at the door, and they took my mother away. The police say she's not really my mother. That she stole me, thirty years ago. When I visit her, desperate for answers, she looks me in the eye, and says nothing. I can barely breathe. Is my whole life a lie? I have to find out, but the more I learn, the more scared I become. And soon I start to wonder, am I losing my grip on reality or is my own daughter in terrible danger? An absolutely gripping psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell. See what readers are saying about Not My Mother: "I did not want to put this book down!! It grabbed me from the first page and I had to force myself to stop reading" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Absolutely amazing! It's twisty and shocking, it really kept me on the edge of my seat" Books Candles Cats, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "You cannot put this book down!! It's addicting. I loved it from the start to the very last page. I flew through the pages all afternoon." Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Absolutely the best psychological thriller I've read in a long time!... Will take you on the ride of your life" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "From the beginning to the very end this book kept me page turning... I loved the twists, turns... I needed the answers!" Musings by Maureen, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author : Angela Miller
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 1940014190

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You Are the Mother of All Mothers by Angela Miller Pdf

Every loss mama deserves to be reminded she is the mother of all mothers.

Author : Marisa Bardach Ramel,Sally Bardach
Publisher : Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948018365

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The Goodbye Diaries: A Mother-Daughter Memoir by Marisa Bardach Ramel,Sally Bardach Pdf

Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984818935

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Hill Women by Cassie Chambers Pdf

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “Poverty is enmeshed with pride in these stories of survival.”—Associated Press Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.

Author : Hope Edelman
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0738217735

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Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman Pdf

The classic New York Times bestseller that has helped millions of women cope with and heal from the grief of losing their mothers Although a mother's mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. More than twenty years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women: Why the absence of a nurturing hand shapes a woman's identity throughout her lifespan How present day relationships are defined by past losses How a woman can resolve past conflicts and move toward acceptance and healing Why grief really is not a linear passage but an ongoing cyclical journey How the legacy of mother loss shifts with the passage of time