![]() Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness simple joy and devastating grief mother love and daughter love mother love and daughter rage. Joyce Carol Oates writes about quilts her mother sewed that were a comfort when her husband died Rita Dove remembers a box of nail polish that taught her to paint her nails in stripes and polka dots Lisa See, daughter of writer Carolyn See, writes about the gift of writing Cecilia Munoz remembers the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Judith was nine years old, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. ![]() The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces all written specifically for this book include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and well-known NPR commentators. Women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter's story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. ![]()
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