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Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers
by Kathryn Kysar

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Just in time for Mother's Day, a group of America's celebrated literary women have come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. These highly personal yet often universal stories offer windows into those influential mother-daughter moments that have forever shaped the lives And perspectives of the writers, powerful women–authors, spokespeople, scholars, teachers, and some mothers themselves.

Jonis Agee's mother haunts her daughter's plumbing. Tai Coleman's mother struggled to raise five children on her own wits and a single paycheck. Heid Erdrich's mother showed her daughter both the falsity and the truth in the cliche of the "Indian Princess." Sheila O'Connor's mother, who ran a road construction company, was not like other mothers. Ka Vang's mother dodged the hand grenades that her husband's first wife threw on her wedding day. Morgan Grayce Willow's mother drove home late at night after selling cosmetics to farm wives as her daughter rode shotgun.

In true tales of startling candor and rich insight, these and many other talented writers reflect on the women who raised them, revealing hard work and hardship, successes and failures, love and anger–mothers and daughters.

Kathryn Kysar, the author of Dark Lake, teaches writing in Minneapolis. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Norcroft, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.

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With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge, 21 accomplished authors illuminate the mother-daughter relationship--intimate, complicated, loving, and flawed--with humor and clarity.
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random99909, March 11, 2008 (view all comments by random99909)
Wow! What an amazing collection of essays: women from all over the United States write about their relationships with their mothers. Some of the moms are depressed and neglectful; some are stellar housewives and loving parents. All of the essays, though they vary in style, are well written. I am going to give a copy to my sister for Mother's day.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780873516143
Subtitle:
Women Write about Their Mothers
Author:
Kysar, Kathryn
Contribution:
Agee, Jonis
Contribution:
Andrew, Elizabeth Jarret
Publisher:
Borealis Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women authors, American
Subject:
Mothers and daughters
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Women Authors
Copyright:
2008
Edition Description:
Special
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
228
Dimensions:
8.82x5.71x.92 in. .97 lbs.
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