mother-daughter relationship

Fourteen-year-old Holly Fay Lovell leaves the small southern town where she lives with her mother, a seamstress, in order to pursue her dream of a singing career, not knowing the whole truth about her humble beginnings.

The author discusses her attempts to understand and deal with her rebellious fourteen-year-old daughter.

The daughter of a Russian immigrant family, newly arrived in Manhattan in 1908, has conflicting feelings about her mother's increasingly radical union involvement.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

Ella tries to give her handicapped daughter Lena a normal life, but when she discovers that Lena has a mind of her own, Ella must contend with letting her daughter go.

Avery MacTavish runs the pizza place right across the street from the Inn BoonsBoro that Owen Montgomery is renovating, and as the two of them cautiously extend their relationship Owen must work at getting her to realize that her first boyfriend is going to be her last.

When Olivia makes a terrible mistake, she is forced to turn to the mother who has never come through for Olivia before, but without her mother's help, Olivia's future hangs in the balance.

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

Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.

Penny Bone has always been terrified of the local tale of a child-stealing phantom, and in Crawford, Virginia, the unofficial motto is "beware what you fear, because it may come true" and a bizarre series of events soon forces Penny and her husband John to face their worst fears.