The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us: Prominent Women Discuss the Complex, Humorous, and Ultimately Loving Relationships They Have with Their Mothers
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- ISBN13: 9781401921620
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The title The Lives Our Mothers Place Us encapsulates what this book by Patti Davis is about. No matter what a woman achieves in her life, no matter how ancient she gets or whether or not she herself becomes a mother, she is permanently and forever a daughter.
The Women Whose Tales Are Included . . .
Patti Davis Anne Rice
Carolyn See Marg Helgenberger
Melissa Gilbert Carnie Wilson
Rosanna Arquette Mariel Hemingway
Anna Quindlen Angelica Huston
Mary Kay Place Ruby Dee
Faye Wattleton Julianne Margulies
Lily Tomlin Diahann Carroll
Candice Bergen Marianne Williamson
Lorna Luft Whoopie Goldberg
Alice Hoffman Cokie Roberts
Kathy Smith
Linda Bloodworth Thomason
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Does Publishers Weekly say Liza Minelli was Lorna Luft’s mother? Book sounds nice, but slipshod verbiage does not make a confident buy for me and does not help sales?…..but we do live in a world that does not worry about accuracy, so what do I know? Sorry Patti, you deserve a break!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Saw Carrie Fisher interviewed about this book and thought
it might be really appealing. It was just an OK book
but I have passed it on to others hoping they might get
more out of it than I did. : )
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The Lives Our Mothers Place Us is a collection of fleeting profiles featuring two dozen women’s reflections on their mothers (and regularly, their grandparents). Though I would have loved more diversity (it’s mostly writers and actresses), it’s a lovely collection — the voices are gentle and insightful and proof that no matter how things seem on the surface, people’s lives and relationships — especially daughters and mothers — are full and intricate bottom. As a side note, I especially liked the startling moments of inter-connectedness when Davis discovers how her father’s (Ronald Reagan) presidential policies affected some of these women’s lives.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
My Mom died in 2001, so I couldnt get the book to give her as a gift. But am giving it to my awesome daughter in law. What I like about the book is its a healing book. As well as amusing and informative. Its not a bitter mean book.
Am so pleased that the leader has such a fantastic relationship with her Mom. She proves thru her writing that time heals and that building the effort to heal a wounded relationship, does pay off.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The description of feeling the absence of one’s mother by Davis in the opening pages was so compelling and lovely that I knew I had to buy this book. I have not been disappointed. Davis and her interviewees stay right to the promise of looking at the Mother/Daughter dynamic for women over 40. The approach is contemplative, cool, reflective, which may at times seem not as emotionally deep as the mama drama of younger women talking about this relationship but if you are looking at your mother, or your daughter with the blessing of the passage of time, you will not be disappointed in this lovely, thoughtful book. I plot to give it to friends and family tree and suggest it to both of my bookclubs.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5