mothers and daughters

Explores the relationship between mothers and daughters and revolves around a quincea?era, one of the most important days in a young girl's life.

Saria, a second generation Muslim-American, decides to pursue a college education after learning family secrets about her grandfather, but the terrorist attacks in 2001 anda family tragedy cause Saria to question her choice to become an international journalist.

Biracial Jesse Morgan struggles to be herself at an eastern college, while her mother, Thea, reunites with a former boyfriend, now minister, and finds that being a minister's wife in a small Arkansas town has issues of its own.

Astrophysicist Lucienne Kundera understands her eccentric mother even less than the black holes she studies and struggles to find a way to help her mother come to terms with her violent past.

Song Byrd, raised in poverty by her single mother, longs to escape from her outsider status in her family and neighborhood, but guilt keeps her from truly enjoying life after her mother is killed and she goes to live with her father in much improved circumstances.

The long friendship between two African-American women, Norma and Moxie, becomes strained when Norma, anguished over the death of her second child and her husband's withdrawal, begins an affair with a white man, and Moxie's teenage daughter becomes involved with a young thug.

The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.

Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's life is full of change as she adjusts to her mother's desires to resume the personal and political life she led before having children.

Twelve-year-old Caity and her younger sister Cara must fend for themselves when their abusive mother storms out of the house with a suitcase and doesn't come back.

In 1948, while her mother is off making yet another movie, fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian makes her way from New York to Oregon to see the grandfather she has never met and to learn what she can about her supposedly dead father.