What My Mother Gave Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What My Mother Gave Me write by Elizabeth Benedict. This book was released on 2013-04-02. What My Mother Gave Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In What My Mother Gave Me, 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. 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. 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 mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."
My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me
My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me write by Julianne Moore. This book was released on 2013-08-27. My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Moore captures the children’s complicated mix of feelings: embarrassment, defiance, pride, appreciation and, most palpably, love.” —The New York Times Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times–bestselling author of the Freckleface Strawberry series Julianne Moore pays homage to all the Muttis, Mammas, and Mamans who are from another country. A foreign mom may eat, speak, and dress differently than other moms—she may wear special clothes for holidays, twist hair in strange old-fashioned braids, and cook recipes passed down from grandma. Such a mom may be different than other moms, but . . . she is also clearly the best! Vividly illustrated by Meilo So, this funny and heartwarming picture book about growing up in multiple cultures celebrates the diverse world in which we live.
My Mother/my Self
My Mother/my Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Mother/my Self write by Nancy Friday. This book was released on 1994. My Mother/my Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence and very selfhood.
Songs My Mother Sang to Me
Songs My Mother Sang to Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs My Mother Sang to Me write by Patricia Preciado Martin. This book was released on 1992-07. Songs My Mother Sang to Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten. Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects. Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest.
Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That!
Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! write by Diane Bahr. This book was released on 2010. Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advice on feeding and exercises to assist the development of babies' mouth and facial muscles to ensure language development, good mouth structure and movement.
