mothers and daughters

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mothers and daughters

A part of the dream

1992
After her parents' divorce, Lisa and her mother spend a week of vacation in Mexico.

A cure for dreams

a novel
1991
A mother-daughter relationship that spans several generations and images the effect of time and change on individual lives.

Like gold refined

2000
Virginia is not prepared to face the decline of her grandparents' health and her adopted daughter's questions about her birth mother.

Mermaids

1986
Fourteen-year-old Charlotte Flax, who is seeking a religious experience, moves with her sister Kate and their mother to a Massachusetts town. There Charlotte becomes smitten with a shy young caretaker at the local convent.

Julie's daughter

1985
Seventeen-year-old Slug goes to live with her mother who abandoned her as a baby, and together they care for an elderly, terminally-ill artist.

Love story, take three

1986
Increasingly stifled by her overprotective mother and the demands of her fledgling acting career, sixteen-year-old Valerie comes to realize that she must make her own decisions about the direction of her life.

How do you know?

2006
When Polly and her mother take a walk on the farm on a foggy morning, Polly learns that things are still there even though the fog hides them.

Tell me a story, Mama

1992
A young girl and her mother remember all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

Nova rocks!

2005
Nova wants to play electric guitar but doesn't want to disappoint her mother's hopes that she will pursue the ballet.

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