 | Mothers & Daughters:Irish Short
Publication Date: November 19, 1998A collection of Irish short stories, including: "Cards", where a daughter tries to shock her mother with her bohemianism; and "In Bed", where a mother shows enormous patience in dispelling her daughter's phobia about fleas and dirt. ...
 |  | Revising Romance a Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2004With an ex-husband in the wings and a cantankerous author front and center, editor Elaine Salter is disillusioned witht he idea of romantic involvement. But when she finds herself drawn to local bookseller Nathan Marks, Elaine reassesses her expectations and concludes tht romance isn't dead. It's alive and well, and full of surprises. ...
|  | North and South
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|  | The Porno Girl: and Other Stories
Publication Date: June 11, 2003Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler’s linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends.Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all-too-familiar and usually kept private.A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest.A caree...
|  | The Places Where Names Vanish
Release Date: April 19, 1998The Places Where Names Vanish explores the frightening, encoded, and potentially explosive realities of Quebec and Montreal as seen by Ecuadorean expatriates.Marta longs for escape from her impoverished village, where she is pulled between traditionalism, spiritualism, Catholicism, and a dirty, brutal reality. The Places Where Names Vanish is a wonderfully evocative, subtle and heartfelt novel, which concentrates on one brave human spirit, but raises more questions than any sociological expose. ...
|  | Once Upon a Wedding
Release Date: July 9, 2002Mom, Dad, I'm getting married.What do you do when your daughter tells you the big news? If you're Camille Delonga, you fight the urge to go lie down for a year or so ... and then you do what any self-respecting mother of the bride would -- you march right out and buy a sky-high stack of bridal magazines. Once upon a Wedding In award-winning author Kathleen Eagle's astonishing and warm new novel, we see just what happens to Camille, her family, and her friends when her beautiful and young daughter, Jordan, speaks those unforgettable words. After all, weddings are a t...
|  | On a Day Like Today
Publication Date: September 1, 2008In this novel from Thorne, one woman's whole world is about to change. After Eleanor is involved in a near-fatal car crash, her daughter returns home to care for her. Under these most difficult of circumstances, the two women are forced to reassess what they mean to each other. ...
|  | No Place of Angels
Publication Date: June 1, 1998Carys Beddows has never understood why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part—Maria believes that young Ryder Tempal would be hers if her daughter was out of the way, and she throws Carys out of the house. Maria continues with her vicious schemes until fate intervenes. ...
|  | The rainbow dress, and other Tollush tales
Publication Date: 1975Despite their poverty, Tollush and her mother find joy in simple things. ...
| | Monkey Bay (Contemporary American Fiction)
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