Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers as They Age Book

Mother and daughter: for both members, it's a long and complicated relationship. With today's increased longevity has come the growth of the "sandwich generation": baby boomers who are caring for both their ageing parents and their own young children. What does this mean for the mother-daughter relationship? In Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers As They Age, journalist Patricia Beard explores the emotional impact of ageing and asks the essential questions: "How can we make peace with our mothers?" and "Why is it so hard?" Based on dozens of interviews, Beard attempts to understand what works--and does not work--in women's relationships with their ageing mothers. Good Daughters is structured into three sections: Reality Check, a discussion of the changing mother-daughter relationship as women age as well as changes in the culture; Profiles, an in-depth description of mother-daughter pairs; and Loss, an exploration of the grieving process--for both mother and daughter--as death becomes imminent. Good Daughters is sensitively and thoughtfully written and brings a great deal of insight to this difficult topic. Readers struggling with the issue of what it means to be a daughter of an ageing mother might want to augment this fine book with Alix Kates Shulman's brilliant memoir, A Good Enough Daughter. --Ericka Lutz, Amazon.comRead More