April/09/09 03:41 PM Filed in:
Non-Fiction
| Family
Live
Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway
Daughters and Reclaimed Love, Debra Gwartney’s
memoir, is not for the faint of heart. Live
Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway
Daughters and Reclaimed Love is a saga of
parenting that leads us through Debra’s
separation, divorce, loss of daughters, attempts
to retain daughters (various facilities, outdoor
camps, foster homes) and final tentative
relationship with her now adult daughters.
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April/09/09 03:14 PM Filed in:
Fiction
| Family
Maria
Laurino in her latest book, Old World Daughter,
New World Mother: An Education in Love and
Freedom seeks to reconcile “ two dominant,
divergent traditions: a fatalistic Mediterranean
culture in which familial dependence is prized
and a ruggedly individualistic American culture
that neglects its needy dependents, young and
old.”
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March/25/09 09:55 PM Filed in:
Fiction
| Romance
When
asked to review Annie Solomon’s latest work, One
Deadly Sin
(Forever
Hachette Book Group;
0446178446),
I was secretly pleased. It gave me a legit reason
to indulge in the guilty pleasure of reading a
romance novel. Read the
review...
