Don't Call Me Mother Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

I have long been one of those who avoided dealing with death, who dodged sentiment, who felt that stories about the loss of a loved one were a bit indulgent, a way of saying 'my pain is greater than your pain.' That was before I lost my father and my wife lost her mother, both within ten days. And that was before I read Linda Joy Myers's Don't Call Me Mother. This is powerful stuff, richly layered, emotional without being manipulative, insightful without being indulgent. It's a wonderful read and a marvelous examination of life and its inevitable conclusion. I loved it. ?James Dalessandro, author of 1906 Could you still love your mother, even if she left you? In this gut-wrenching, poetic memoir, Linda Joy Myers explores three generations of maternal abandonment in her family--and movingly explores her own quest to break the chain. ?Melanie Rigney, former editor, Writer's Digest