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This lovely collection of poems, stories, anecdotes, & photographs celebrates the elder matriarch in many women’s lives. In their chosen or unchosen roles -- matriarch, surrogate mother, teacher, confidante, secret ally, healer -- grandmothers are women as varied as the world. And in this wonderful collection, writers remember, restoring their own grandmothers to the world’s eyes & ears. The writers are from a wide variety of cultural, racial & economic backgrounds, such as Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Ethel Barrymore, E.K. Caldwell, Mary D’Angelo, Toi Derricotte, M.F.K. Fisher, Jewelle Gomez, Linda Hogan, Dawna Markova, Tara L. Masih, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, & Leslie Marmon Silko. Black & white photos.
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