Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal collaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught, ways their lives have overlapped. Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirrored her mother’s: Both have full-time careers (Perri is a pediatrician; Sheila is recently retired from a long career as a college English professor but goes on teaching); both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read, and to pass books back and forth. They also love to travel–in fact, they often take trips together (and live to tell the tale). But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more Perri and Sheila acknowledge their profound differences in circumstance and temperament. A child of the Depression, Sheila was raised in Brooklyn by Orthodox Jewish parents who considered education an unnecessary luxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up privileged and rebellious in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, fanatically frugal, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at enticing her mother into even the tiniest self-indulgence. Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila take turns exploring the joys and pains, the love and resentment, the petty irritations and abiding respect, that have always bound them together. Sheila recounts the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing anthropological fieldwork. Perri confesses that she can’t tame her domestic chaos even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Sheila rhapsodizes about the bliss of becoming a grandmother. Perri marvels at her mother’s fearless navigation of the New York City subways. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, confess long-hidden sorrows, relish precious memories–and even offer family recipes and knitting patterns. Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, zest, and mutual admiration. A memoir in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that resonates with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize.

Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes and Knitting Patterns Included)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Klass, Perri

Klass, Sheila Solomon

Psychology & Counseling

Ballantine Books

Who says boys are the only ones allowed to have talents and use them? That's what Phoebe Anne Moses, or Annie, as she prefers to be called, would like to know. From the day Annie first picks up her father's rifle at age 8, it's clear she has a rather unusual gift. She is the sharpest shooter in the land. Her Quaker mother would rather Annie concentrate on more traditional activities like cooking and sewing. But Annie can't deny what's in her soul. It's only when she's out in the wilderness, alone with the quiet and the trees and the animals, that she truly feels alive. And Annie knows the game she shoots just may save her family from a life of poverty and despair.

A Shooting Star

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

Yearling

Uncivil War

Having been able to cope with a unusual name, a weight problem and the school principal for a father, Asa is okay with herself, yet when a bully of a boy enters the picture and starts poking fun, Asa realizes that she must win the battle in order to win his war of rudeness. Reprint.

The Uncivil War

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

A mysterious new boy at school, an illness in her family, a new stepmother, and the loss of a friend bring unsettling but challenging change into the life of fifteen-year-old Jess.

Alive & Starting Over

Fawcett

As a young girl, Amy's mother had been denied the chance to attend Bennington College and now is determined that seventeen-year-old Amy will have that opportunity whether she wants it or not

Bennington Stitch

Bantam Starfire Books

When her father's decision to quit his lucrative job to "find himself" as an actor changes their family's finances, pampered sixteen-year-old Carole is dismayed that she must give up her credit card and get a job herself.

Credit-Card Carole

Starfire

When Ada, a tough, street-fighting transplant from coal mining country to the Chicago slums, gets the no-nonsense Ms. Walker as a teacher, she learns that there are other ways to stand up for yourself.

Kool Ada

scholastic

Hardened after the death of her Pa and brother, Ada lives her life in silence in her Aunt Dottie's Chicago home, refusing to let down her defenses. Reprint.

Apple

Annie hates her nose and decides that plastic surgery may be the answer

Rhino

Disgusted by her inherited family nose, which she believes only looks good on her male relations, Annie suffers from a lack of self-esteem and believes that cosmetic surgery will help her to feel better about herself. Reprint.

Point

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Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes and Knitting Patterns Included)

A Shooting Star

The Uncivil War

Alive & Starting Over

Bennington Stitch

Credit-Card Carole

Kool Ada

Kool Ada

Rhino

Rhino