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A Practical Guide to Becoming an Emotional Genius
Agate
January 2007
On Sale: January 1, 2007
180 pages
ISBN: 1932841229
EAN: 9781932841220
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Lynn Toler was, if anything, an achiever. At thirty-three,
after Harvard, Penn Law School, and a decade as a successful
lawyer, she was elected to a municipal judgeship-a black
woman in a mostly white community, and a Republican in a
district where Democrats held a 5:1 majority. Once on the
bench, responsible for adjudicating the countless minor
squabbles and foibles to be found among her town's
residents, she realized that the teachings of one person in
particular helped her when dealing with those offenders: her
mother, a woman who possessed remarkable grace, strength,
and simple insight.
Her mother's "rules" for a life that saw her grow up the
daughter of a poor teen mother, and who endured a husband
who suffered mental illness and alcoholism, while raising
Lynn and her equally successful and well-adjusted sister,
provide the grounding for Lynn's story of her life, her
family, and her career. The worldview that shaped them is
based on learning how to conquer anger and become immune to
insult. Lynn shows how the mindset of "a black woman who
knew how to make things work" taught her the power of
knowing how to manage one's emotional business-lessons that
this book offers in wrenching stories written in spare and
graceful prose. My Mother's Rules is an unforgettable memoir
that will captivate readers with its illustrations of how to
rise above the most difficult circumstances and find peace
and success in life.
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