What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elissa Schappell, Caroline Leavitt, Lisa See, Roxana Robinson, Judith Hillman Paterson, Susan Stamberg, Katha Pollitt, Marge Piercy, Eleanor Clift, Dahlia Lithwick, Mary Morris, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Joyce Carol Oates, Cheryl Pearl Sucher, Lillian Daniel, Mameve Medwed, Ann Hood, Charlotte Silver, Elinor Lipman, Mary Gordon, Martha McPhee, Karen Karbo, Elizabeth Benedict, Abigail Pogrebin, Sheila Kohler, Maud Newton, Margo Jefferson, Cecilia Muñoz, Rita Dove, Luanne Rice, Emma Straub

What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most

Elissa Schappell, Caroline Leavitt, Lisa See, Roxana Robinson, Judith Hillman Paterson, Susan Stamberg, Katha Pollitt, Marge Piercy, Eleanor Clift, Dahlia Lithwick, Mary Morris, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Joyce Carol Oates, Cheryl Pearl Sucher, Lillian Daniel, Mameve Medwed, Ann Hood, Charlotte Silver, Elinor Lipman, Mary Gordon, Martha McPhee, Karen Karbo, Elizabeth Benedict, Abigail Pogrebin, Sheila Kohler, Maud Newton, Margo Jefferson, Cecilia Muñoz, Rita Dove, Luanne Rice, Emma Straub

304 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

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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. The contributors of...

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