Don't Call Me Mother Don't Call Me Mother

Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

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Publisher Description

“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself. This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family’s legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
13 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
380
Pages
PUBLISHER
She Writes Press
SELLER
Simon and Schuster Australia Pty Ltd.
SIZE
945.1
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