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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 ofMoreWomen 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 all written specifically for this book include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and well-known NPR commentators.Joyce Carol Oates writes about quilts her mother sewed that were a comfort when her husband died- Rita Dove remembers a box of nail polish that taught her to paint her nails in stripes and polka dots- Lisa See, daughter of writer Carolyn See, writes about the gift of writing- Cecilia Munoz remembers 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 Judith was nine years old, the year before her mother died of alcoholism.Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness- simple joy and devastating 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. What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict
