mothers and daughters

When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.

In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.

Three young women, Madeline, Desiree, and Ariel, who live in separate decades, struggle with similar issues regarding family, men, self-respect, empathy, and forgiveness.

Debra Gwartney details her efforts to recover her runaway daughters, who at the ages of fifteen and thirteen left home together as a reaction to Debra's divorce from her husband and move to Eugene, Oregon.

Under King Arthur's reign, Kiera--daughter of Lady Alayna--is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead, and Alayna travels to Camelot to entreat Mordred to help resuce her.

A two-act play depicting an embittered mother who vents her frustrations upon her two daughters.

Rose, married for three years, decides she has made a mistake and leaves her husband, traveling from California to Kentucky to take up residence in a home for unwed mothers where she plans to have her baby and give it up for adoption, but she soon discovers life still holds some surprises.

Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.

Dana Buchman recounts her family's struggle to help her daughter deal with the neurological, spatial, and motor-skill disabilities she was diagnosed with as a toddler, tracing her daughter's development and sharing how she learned to cope with the unique challenges of having a child with special needs.

At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.