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The Middle of Everything - Memoirs of Motherhood (Paperback)
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The Middle of Everything - Memoirs of Motherhood (Paperback)
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List price R537
Loot Price R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
You Save R85 (16%)
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When she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daughter, Grace,
went on a hunger strike. At six, she suffered what can only be
described, in the old-fashioned way, as a breakdown. And at the
ripe old age of eight, she began a study of the nature of "true
romance." Motherhood may come naturally, but it doesn't necessarily
come easily--certainly not as easily as it seemed to "this" mother
when she vowed to do a better job than her own mother had. But the
real trouble started when Herman decided that "better" wasn't good
enough: she would be the "perfect" mother. A memoir from the front
lines of motherhood by a longtime writer of fiction, "The Middle of
Everything" weaves a daughter's memories of her Brooklyn childhood
in the 1950s and 1960s, and the shadow cast on it by her own young
mother's paralyzing depression, with a middle-aged woman's account
of trying to break her mother's mold by meeting her own child's
every need. A story of love of all kinds, of work and friendship
(especially best-friendship, its rewards and perils both), of the
charms of other people's families, of the miseries and pleasures of
aging, and of the twists of the ties that bind each generation to
the next, Michelle Herman's book is an energetic, exhaustive,
lacerating, unflinching, and often hilarious inside look at the
very nature of motherhood.
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