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Every Mother Is a Daughter

The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen

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Oh no, I'm turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother's voice coming out of her mouth. But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it's at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we plot and follow the arc that goes from childhood to motherhood.

Together, Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, cover more than seven decades of daughterhood and motherhood. And although they grew up in dramatically different circumstances, they find that their lives have been shaped in strangely similar ways. In Every Mother is a Daughter, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, with different perspectives, unique voices, and powerful insight, in the first co-written mother-daughter memoir.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie capture the rapport, love, frustrations, and gentle teasing between mother and daughter as they read this memoir by Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass. The two women share their very different perspectives on each other, housework, child-rearing, and money, even as they travel the world and reflect on life with Sheila's late husband, who was an anthropologist. Both Klass women are accomplished writers who bring an engaging and conversational style to this humorous and heartwarming memoir. Fields and MacDuffie are the perfect combination to highlight this style. The outstanding performance by the two women brings this well-written account of a unique family vividly to life. H.L.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      November 15, 2006
      The mother-daughter bond is at the center of the story of Sheila, a noted writer and English professor, and Perri, a noted writer and medical doctor. Listeners will enjoy hearing about each woman's childhood: Sheila's emotionally absent parents discouraged her dreams; Perri had open, nurturing parents at a time when it was uncool to have their support. They talk about how their childhoods shaped them and about their lives as daughters and as mothers, with Perri discussing her experience raising three children to young adulthood. They note their differences, with Sheila finding frustration with Perri's less-than-perfect cleaning style. Both mothers and daughters will enjoy listening to this book and knowing that these women love each other deeply and want the other to be happy, especially as Sheila deals with the loss of her beloved husband and her eyesight. Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie do a fine reading job; for all public libraries."Danna Bell-Russel, Library of Congress"

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 19, 2005
      These authors avoid the pitfalls of the often saccharine mother-daughter memoir by interspersing humorous anecdotes within a solid framework of stories of mom Sheila's dark upbringing during the 1940s and daughter Perri's current struggle to keep her own life as a mother, doctor, writer and avid knitter under control. The two exchange ideas, conflicting memories of past events and even gentle criticisms in chapters such as "There Are No Old Babies" and "Milking Reindeer." Readers will appreciate the honesty between the pair as Sheila writes about growing up with abusive and distant parents and her experience as a working mother in New Jersey during the 1960s, while Perri struggles to "have it all" in 2005, consistently feeling as though something, or someone, has been forgotten along the way. The mother-daughter duo triumph over hectic schedules and physical distance through their love of writing and travel, ending with reminiscences of their trip to India to visit the Taj Mahal. This is a treasure for any generation.

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