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I Am My Mother's Daughter: Making Peace With Mom Before It's Too Late
I Am My Mother's Daughter Making Peace With Mom Before It's Too Late Author:Iris Krasnow I Am My Mother?s Daughter — Making Peace with Mom Before It?s Too Late — Inspiration and advice for adult daughters on making peace with Mom while there's still time--from the best-selling author of Surrendering to Marriage and Surrendering to Motherhood. — Iris Krasnow--mother, daughter, and best-selling author of Surrendering to Marriage--tackles... more » the toughest relationship in the lives of many grown women: the mother-daughter bond. Far too often, mothers and daughters don't mend their fences until it's too late. But with the life expectancy of women inching well past eighty, we get more time to make peace--so much time, in fact, we may be embroiled with our mothers until our own hair turns white.
Drawing on her own experience with her ailing, but still irrepressible, eighty-five-year-old mother and the collective wisdom of more than a hundred other midlife daughters, Krasnow's bracing book offers fresh prescriptions on how to overcome the anger and resentment that can accumulate over the years. She reminds us in both joyful and wrenching true stories that you can't divorce your mother and you can't kiss and make up at her funeral, so you must work things out. The key, Krasnow says, is learning to let go of the fantasy mother and embrace the real mom who hates your hair, criticizes your husband, whines about your kids--or worse. As Krasnow puts it, "When you ditch old baggage and open your heart, you'll find that your aging, difficult mother still has important lessons to teach you, on how to live, love and mother your own brood."
A seasoned journalist with a sharp eye for detail, Krasnow mobilizes the power of storytelling, introducing us to daughters struggling with all kinds of moms--cold ones who ignored them, mothers who smothered them, and those who manage to guilt trip them from the grave. She shows us how moving beyond vintage pain and old blame when your mother is still spunky can reward you with years more of a supportive friendship with the woman who knows you better and probably loves you more than anyone else.« less