mother-daughter relationship

Contains interviews with over forty women in which they share their feelings about their mothers evoked by memories of going into mom's closet.

Presents selections from the diaries of mother and daughter Linda and Tara Rio that provide insights into their thoughts and feelings in the years before Tara developed an eating disorder and continuing through her treatment and therapy, and includes advice and commentary from Craig Johnson, Ph.D., president of the National Eating Disorders Association.

A young woman trying to recover from an attempted suicide finds herself learning more about her family as she works through her emotions with her counselor.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

A fifteen-year-old who lives with her mother, an ardent feminist, in a women's commune begins to discover how others live when she visits her father, a successful architect, for the first time.

Ehwa tries to cope with her widowed mother's finding of new love, while she, after falling in love with Duksam, a young wrestler, discovers the pain of heartbreak when Master Cho sends Duksam away and asks for her hand in marriage himself, in a Korean novel in graphic format.

Presents a collection of connected short stories that follows a young girl, Ann Ransom, from her childhood and adolescence to adulthood.