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Also by Jancee Dunn:

Hot and Bothered, May 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?, July 2009
Paperback
But Enough About Me, June 2006
Hardcover

Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?
Jancee Dunn

And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask

Villard
July 2009
On Sale: June 23, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0345501926
EAN: 9780345501929
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Despite her forty years and a successful career as a rock journalist, Jancee Dunn still feels like a teenager, especially around her parents and sisters. Looking around, Dunn realizes that she’s not alone in this regression: Her friends, all with successful jobs, marriages, and families of their own, still feel like kids around their moms and dads, too. That gets Dunn to thinking: Do we ever really grow up?

Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? explores this phenomenon– through both Dunn’s coming to grips with getting older and her folks’ attempts to turn back the clock. In a series of hilarious and heartwarming essays, Dunn conspires with her sisters to finagle their way into the old family homestead, dissects the whys and wherefores of her parents’ obsession with newspaper clippings, confronts the seamy side of the JC Penney catalogs she paged through as a kid, and accompanies her sixtysomething mother to a New Jersey tattoo parlor, where Mom is giddy to get a raven inked onto her wrist. And Dunn does it all with humor and insight.

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Re: Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?

It's great to see a book that tries to explain the relationship between a mother and daughter as they got older
(Diane Sadler 7:29pm July 20, 2009)