mothers and daughters

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Dreaming in Cuban

a novel
1993
The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Close to a killer

1999
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

A dance for three

2000
When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about her life.

One true thing

1998
The life choices of a mother and daughter are reassessed as the mother lies dying of cancer.

So far away

a novel
2012
The story of three very different women whose lives intersect in incredible ways, including a thirteen-year-old cyberbullying victim, a mother longing for her lost daughter, and a 1920s Irish domestic with a secret.

Are you my mother?

a comic drama
2012
Writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel writes about her relationship with her mother.

Marie Curie and her daughters

the private lives of science's first family
2012
Describes the lives of Marie Curie and her daughters. Nobel Prize winner and radiation pioneer Marie Curie was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII.

Terms of endearment

a novel
1989
A mother and daughter find courage and humor to live through life's troubles.

A grown-up kind of pretty

2012
Tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother and a graveyard on their property.

Girlchild

2012
Follows the struggles of Rory Hendrix as she searches for a way out of her life of poverty at the Calle, a run-down Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother Jo, a hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.

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