mothers and daughters

Gabriel Guttman retreats to his childhood home in southwest Montana to try and regain some of the memory he lost in a suicide attempt and to deal with the pain of his activities while a soldier in Korea.

In need of time to decide what to do with her life after a year of college, Marcie finds help in her guitar and bluegrass music in breaking away from her overprotective divorced mother and in making decisions.

In 2205 the world is in the grip of another ice age; Chandra must make her way south, across a heavily guarded border without papers in order to find her missing mother.

Nova, always on the lookout for a new father, turns to Josef, a Holocaust survivor, as a beacon of hope and faith when her beloved older brother Dewey contracts polio, and her mother loses sight of God.

Grapette, a baby grape that lives cradled in the arms of her mother, a grapevine from France, learns how much her mother loves her when she runs away.

In the difficult time after her mother goes away, Zeenie comes to understand the significance of a huge old tree to her grandmother and the importance of memories for both of them.

Melinda has a very difficult day after having an almost sleepless night.

Ten-year-old Rakhee Singh, having been taken away from her father and their Minnesota home by her mother to spend the summer in an Indian village, meets her relatives, and, while exploring the grounds of her ancestral estate, she comes upon a walled-up garden holding secrets that influence her beliefs about love and fidelity.

A collection of true stories in which top contemporary female writers share stories of disastrous dates orchestrated by their mothers.