Mothers and Daughters
Jun
30
A week from now, my second novel SEA ESCAPE will be published. Inspired by my own mother-daughter relationship, and letters my father wrote to her in the early days of their romance, the novel is an imagined story about the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
Certainly I’m focused on this most primal of relationships, yet it seems everything I read lately explores the fine strong thread between mothers and daughters.
I just finished reading THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O’Farrell and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s a tender, moving, and intriguing story about what it means to be a mother, and the psychological unraveling that comes as a result of being estranged.
Then this morning, I came across this beautiful essay, written by Laura Zigman, author of ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, about the last days of her mother’s life. I wept when I read, “stripped of her toughness and her defenses — of everything that had made her who she was, so impossible to know — she was finally the mother I’d always wanted: the kind whose face lit up the moment she saw me.”
If these reflective pieces have you hungry for more on the ins and outs of the mother-daughter relationship from a psychological perspective, check out this article, Our Mothers–Ourselves.
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