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Penguin
April 2010
On Sale: April 15, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 1594202613
EAN: 9781594202612
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Non-Fiction
"What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches
you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it
brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that
moment equips you to live through it. That's what I would
give to you." -Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons, in conversation
with her daughter, Danyealah Green-Lemons In Mom, Dave
Isay-StoryCorps's founder and the editor of the project's
bestselling collection, Listening Is an Act of Love-presents
a celebration of American mothers. Featuring StoryCorps's
most revelatory stories on the subject, Momlooks across a
diversity of experience to present an entirely original
portrait of motherhood. Through conversations between
parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and
friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In stories
that take us from the woods of New Hampshire to urban
Detroit and beyond, we meet mothers and children from all
walks of life-an immigrant mother instilling in her children
the importance of education, adult children caring for an
elderly parent, a woman remembering the sound of her
mother's laugh, and mothers and children of all ages
learning to grow into new roles over time. Visiting families
in moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair,
struggle and triumph, we learn new truths about that most
primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between mother
and child. With this vital contribution to the American
storybook, StoryCorps has created a tribute to mothers that
honors the wealth of our national experience. An
appreciation of the wisdom and generosity passed between
mothers and children, this generation to the next, Momoffers
powerful lessons in the meaning of family and the
expansiveness of the human heart.
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