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

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<p>In <em>What My Mother Gave Me,</em> 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 these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists.</p> <p>Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship.</p> <p>Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both 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 Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her

Author

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

Publisher

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616202682

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Sociology

Rating

3.56 / 5 (401 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14