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In this collection of original letters, more than 75 daughters, incl. Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Ntozake Shange, and Hilma Wolitzer, speak to their mothers, both living and deceased, with messages that come straight from the heart. Here are novelists, poets, essayists, humorists, cartoonists, journalists, many of them mothers and grandmothers themselves, authors of different ages and cultures, reaching into the most personal part of her life to share her secret sorrows, joys, hurt, anger, and understanding. Their letters hold thoughtful, provocative, funny, and sometimes painful revelations -- memories and confessions, poems, fables and tales -- at once personal and universal, touching and profound. “A gift for mothers -- and for us all. Illus.
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