mother-daughter relationship

A study of the mother-daughter relationship that shows how to improve communication within a family by developing an understanding of the other's point of view.

The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.

Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

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.

En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.

The author draws from her own life experiences to examine the influence of the mother-daughter bond on a woman's feelings about aging.

A collection of short fiction stories that follow the lives of sisters Angel and Lina Lupo from girlhood in their parents' Italian Catholic home, to adulthood, marriage, and divorce.

Jo, a child of a broken home, learns to build her own happiness through fantasies of love that lead her into dangerous experiments with drugs and sex and a search for the mother who abandoned her years earlier.

Twelve-year-old Gillian is sent away from her mother who is dying of AIDS to live with her relatives in Tennessee.

Studies the relationships between alcoholic mothers and their daughters and discusses the roles the daughters have to take on because of their mother's addiction.