| Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers Contributor(s): Kysar, Kathryn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0873516141 ISBN-13: 9780873516143 Publisher: Borealis Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge, 21 accomplished authors illuminate the mother-daughter relationship--intimate, complicated, loving, and flawed--with humor and clarity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 814.608 |
| LCCN: 2007047611 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.71" W x 8.82" (0.97 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Holiday - Mother's Day |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A group of America's celebrated literary women have come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom. These highly personal yet often universal stories offer windows into those influential mother-daughter moments that have forever shaped the lives and perspectives of the writers, powerful women--authors, spokespeople, scholars, teachers, and some mothers themselves. Jonis Agee's mother haunts her daughter's plumbing. Tai Coleman's mother struggled to raise five children on her own wits and a single pay check. Heid Erdrich's mother showed her daughter both the falsity and the truth in the clich of the "Indian Princess." Sheila O'Connor's mother, who ran a road construction company, was not like other mothers. Ka Vang's mother dodged the hand grenades that her husband's first wife threw on her wedding day. Morgan Grayce Willow's mother drove home late at night after selling cosmetics to farm wives as her daughter rode shotgun. In true tales of startling candor and rich insight, these and many other talented writers reflect on the women who raised them, revealing hard work and hardship, successes and failures, love and anger--mothers and daughters. Contributors: Jonis Agee, Elizabeth Jarret Andrew, Sandra Benitez, Barrie Jean Borich, Taiyon Coleman, Heid Erdrich, Diane Glancy, Jan Zita Grover, Denise Low, Alison McGhee, Sheila O'Connor, Shannon Olson, Carrie Pomeroy, Susan Power, Sun Yung Shin, Faith Sullivan, Ann Ursu, Ka Vang, Wang Ping, Susan Steger Welsh, Morgan Grayce Willow. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kysar, Kathryn: - Kathryn Kysar, the author of Dark Lake, teaches writing in Minneapolis. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Norcroft, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. |