mothers and daughters

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1971. A drama about a mother whose dreams have been shattered & vents her frustrations on her daughters.

When seventh-grader Amalee uses an inheritance to make a movie about endangered species, she discovers a link with the mother she never knew.

While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.

Elizabeth and Le Ann face the complexities of understanding and raising their teenage daughters--one struggling with dating abuse and the other acting out rebellious behavior.

A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.

Twelve-year-old Hershey must deal with a new set of problems after her mother, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, takes the family to live across town in a women's shelter, and Hershey's journals and Cheez Doodles are her only constants.

Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue suspects that her mother's pill-popping boyfriend Hayes has her involved in criminal activity as his associates continue to leave increasingly hostile warnings, and Lynn escapes with online flirtations, eventually meeting up with troubled soldier Logan Loy, who stays over in a storage space accessible through her closet.

Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.