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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The letter written by the mother of a 15 yr. old is her attempt to explain her parenting style as a result of growing up in the 1960's. It brings up first love, beliefs different from your parents and doing your own thing to establish your identity. Surprisingly the author is male yet captures many of the issues of being female. ( ) I was a little iffy about picking up this book. I wasn't too sure that a male author could really write a book based from a female's point of view and make me want to read it. I was completely surprised to find that Mr. Bishop did exactly that. From the moment I picked this book up I couldn't put it down. As a mother, with a soon to be teen, I felt an instant connection with Laura. I too always said that I would be a better mother to my children than my mother was to me, and have caught myself saying and doing some of the exact things that my mother did when I was a child. The book is about Laura and her daughter Liz, there is a fight at the beginning of the book, and Liz takes off. Laura is worried about her, and sits down to write a letter to her daughter. The letter is the whole book, with a few present day things thrown in. I laughed and cried while Laura was writing the letter that started in her freshman year of high school and went on to her senior year. From first loves, to catholic school; tattoos and heartache, I was entranced and even ordered dinner for the kids because I couldn't pull myself away. I am so happy that I didn't let the fact that Mr. Bishop was a man stop me from reading! This was an interesting story told in the form of a letter. The narrator's daughter runs away after an argument with her mother, and what results is a lovely retelling of the mother's past and how it shaped her into the person she is today. A simply complicated love story set in Louisana during the 70's but the lessons certainly apply to today's world. I also found this surprisingly heartfelt and detailed, which is not something I had expected, given that this was written by a man, but from a mother's perspective. Written by a man, the book is actually a letter from a mother to her runaway daughter. The mother is telling the daughter about her own teen years and her struggles with her own parents. I liked the mother's story; I found it harder to understand why she felt it applicable and buying into the idea that this is the way a mother would spend the hours that her daughter was missing.
Subtitle: No one seems to care very much I was expecting a somewhat predictable story of a mother writing a letter to her daughter. Fortunately, I overcame my reticence, and upon reading the first couple of paragraphs I found myself immersed in a riveting story.
A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry--and begins writing a letter to her daughter that will convey the lessons she learned during her own troubled adolescence in rural Louisiana. No library descriptions found. |
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