《every mother is a daughter》是一本Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Perri Klass，本書是一部用兩種聲音寫的回憶錄，它是一部與所有母親和女兒都會認識到的經歷產生共鳴的二重唱。
基本介紹
- 中文名：every mother is a daughter
- 作者：Perri Klass
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780345477187
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the lasttime a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a booktogether about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila SolomonKlass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be idealcollaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood,daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught, ways theirlives have overlapped.
Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirroredher mother’s: Both have full-time careers (Perri is a pediatrician;Sheila is recently retired from a long career as a college Englishprofessor but goes on teaching); both have published books,articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love toread, and to pass books back and forth. They also love to travel–infact, they often take trips together (and live to tell the tale).But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more Perriand Sheila acknowledge their profound differences in circumstanceand temperament.
A child of the Depression, Sheila was raised in Brooklyn byOrthodox Jewish parents who considered education an unnecessaryluxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she hasfought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the otherhand, grew up privileged and rebellious in the New Jersey suburbsof the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, fanatically frugal, wastingtime or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perrienjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful atenticing her mother into even the tiniest self-indulgence.
Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila taketurns exploring the joys and pains, the love and resentment, thepetty irritations and abiding respect, that have always bound themtogether. Sheila recounts the adventure of giving birth to Perri ina tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing anthropologicalfieldwork. Perri confesses that she can’t tame her domestic chaoseven though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Sheilarhapsodizes about the bliss of becoming a grandmother. Perrimarvels at her mother’s fearless navigation of the New York Citysubways. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children andworking, confess long-hidden sorrows, relish precious memories–andeven offer family recipes and knitting patterns.
Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately andtogether, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story withhonesty, humor, zest, and mutual admiration. A memoir in twovoices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that resonates withthe experiences that all mothers and daughters willrecognize.
作者簡介
Perri Klass is the award-winning author of many books, including Quirky Kids, The Mystery of Breathing, and A Not Entirely Benign Procedure. She is also a practicing pediatrician and the medical director and president of the national program Reach Out and Read, dedicated to promoting literacy as part of pediatric primary care. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sheila Solomon Klass is the author of sixteen novels, including In a Cold Open Field, and a memoir. She recently retired from her position as an English professor at Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She lives in Manhattan.
