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      By Rivers, Melissa, 1969-
       [2015], Adult, Crown Archetype Call No: Bio R622r   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Joan Rivers said some outrageous things to her audiences as a comedian--but they were nothing compared to what she said and did in private. But her love for her daughter knew no bounds. Now Melissa Rivers shares stories and anecdotes about growing up in the Rosenberg-Rivers household with the woman who raised her."--From publisher.
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       2023., Scribner Call No: NEW BLK Fic War   Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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      By Lui, Elaine
       2014., Random House Canada Call No: Bio L952l    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Most people think Iœm exaggerating at first when I talk about the Chinese Squawking Chicken. But once they actually spend some time with her, they understand. They get it. Right away. Sheœs Chinese, she squawks like a chicken, she is totally nuts, and I am totally dependent on her.When Elaine Lui was growing up, her mother told her, Why do you need to prepare for the good things that happen? Theyœre good. They wonœt hurt you. My job is to prepare you for the hard times, and teach you how to avoid them, whenever possible.· Neither traditionally Eastern nor conventionally Western, the Squawking Chicken raised her daughter drawing on Chinese fortune-telling, feng shui blackmail, good old-fashioned ghost stories, and shame and embarrassment in equal measure. And despite years of chafing against her motherœs parenting style, Elaine came to recognize the hidden wisdomand immeasurable valuein her rather unorthodox upbringing.Listen to the Squawking Chicken lays bare the playbook of unusual advice and warnings used to teach Elaine about hard work (Miss Hong Kong is a whore·), humility (I should have given birth to a piece of barbecue pork·), love and friendship, family loyalty (Whereœs my money?·), style and deportment (Donœt be low classy·), finding oneœs own voice (Walk like an elephant, squawk like a chicken·) among other essentials. Along the way, Elaine poignantly reveals how her mother earned the nickname Tsiahng Gai· or squawking chicken· growing up in Hong Kong, enduring and rising from the ashes of her own hard times.Listen to the Squawking Chicken is a loving mother-daughter memoir that will have readers laughing out loud, gasping in shock, and reconsidering the honesty and guts it takes to be a parent.
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      By Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-
       2020., Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Bio T811m    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy."--Dust jacket.
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      By Arnold, David, 1981-
       2015., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Fic Arn    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane."--From publisher.
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      By Smith, Tracy K
       2015., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK Bio S662o   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Cistaro, Melissa  OverDrive, Inc
       2015., Sourcebooks Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: "Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and stumbles on the answers she'd been seeking. Haunting and ultimately uplifting, Pieces of My Mother is about the choices we make and their repercussions on others"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Gorokhova, Elena
       2015., Simon & Schuster Call No: Bio G672r   Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "An exquisite portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey, from the author of A Mountain of Crumbs--the memoir that 'leaves you wanting more' (The Daily Telegraph, UK). In A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova describes coming of age behind the Iron Curtain and leaving her mother and her Motherland for a new life in the United States. Now, in Russian Tattoo, Elena learns that the journey of an immigrant is filled with everyday mistakes, small humiliations, and a loss of dignity. Cultural disorientation comes in the form of not knowing how to eat a hamburger, buy a pair of shoes, or catch a bus. But through perseverance and resilience, Elena gradually adapts to her new country. With the simultaneous birth of her daughter and the arrival of her Soviet mother, who comes to the US to help care for her granddaughter and stays for twenty-four years, it becomes the story of a unique balancing act and a family struggle. Russian Tattoo is a poignant memoir of three generations of strong women with very different cultural values, all living under the same roof and battling for control. Themes of separation and loss, grief and struggle, and power and powerlessness run throughout this story of growing understanding and, finally, redemption. 'Gorokhova writes about her life with a novelist's gift,' says The New York Times, and her latest offering is filled with empathy, insight, and humor"--Provided by publisher.