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A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter's Notebook
HarperCollins
April 2010
On Sale: April 20, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 006173523X
EAN: 9780061735233
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Faced with the loss of her mother, Suzy, to cancer at
sixty, Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Rosman longs
to find answers to the questions that we all wrestle with
after losing someone we love. So she does what she does
best: she opens her notebook and starts investigating. Thumbing through her late mother's address book, Rosman
begins to discover a woman whose life was intricately
connected to a host of characters her daughter hardly knew.
Her reporting skills at the ready, she embarks on a
cross-country odyssey, tracking down total strangers from
whom she hopes to learn about a woman she once thought she
couldn't know better. Venturing into the heart of some
colorful communities, Rosman interviews friends and
acquaintances of her mother's, as well as people whose
relationships with her were more complex though no less
potent—among them a former golf caddie, a legendary Pilates
instructor, an eBay glass collector, and an immigrant doctor
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. As Rosman
attempts to fill in the blank spaces that may explain her
mother's motivations and philosophies in building a life and
in facing death, she comes to understand this woman as she
never imagined she could. Blending humor, honesty, and old-fashioned reporting, Rosman
grapples with the bittersweet reality that sometimes we
can't truly know someone until after she is gone. At once
comforting, candid, and very funny, If You Knew Suzy is a
heartfelt memoir against which readers can consider
themselves and the lives of all those they love.
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