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Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her motheras life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers
In "Not Becoming My Mother," bestselling author Ruth Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her motheras life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew. Looking to her motheras letters and diaries, Reichl confronts the painful transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and realizes the tremendous sacrifices she made to make sure her daughteras life would not be as disappointing as her own.
Growing up in Cleveland, Miriam Brudno dreamed of becoming a doctor, like her father. But when she announced this, her parents said, aYouare no beauty, and itas too bad youare such an intellectual. But if you become a doctor, no man will ever marry you.a Instead, at twenty, Miriam opened a bookstore, a profession everyone agreed was suitably ladylike. She corresponded with authors all over the world, including philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, political figures such as Max Eastman, and novelists such as Christopher Marlowe. It was the happiest time of her life.
Nearly thirty when she finally married, she fulfilled expectations, settled down, left her bookstore behind, and started a family. But conformity came at a tremendous cost. With labor-saving devices to aid in household chores, there was simply not enough to do to fill the days. Miriamaand most of her friendsawere smart, educated women who were often bored, miserable, and silently rebellious.
On what would have been Miriamas one hundredth birthday Reichl opens up her motheras diaries for the first time and encounters a whole new woman. This is a person she had never known. In this intimate study Reichl comes to understand the lessons of rebellion, independence, and self-acceptance that her motherathough unable to guide herselfasucceeded in teaching her daughter. |
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Bliss
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Myracle, Lauren
New York Times "bestselling author Lauren Myracle offers a spine-tingling, unforgettable story of friendship gone very, very wrong." Lauren Myracle brings her keen understanding of teen dynamics to a hypnotic horror story of twisted friendship. When Bliss's hippie parents leave the commune and dump her at the home of her aloof grandmother in a tony Atlanta neighborhood, it's like being set down on an alien planet. The only guide naive Bliss has to her new environment is what she's seen on "The Andy Griffith Show." But Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence. Openhearted Bliss desperately wants new friends, making her the perfect prey of a troubled girl whose obsession with a long-ago death puts Bliss, and anyone she's kind to, in mortal danger. Lauren Myracle has taken the ubiquitous friendship novel to a new, dark place. |
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