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Mothers, Daughters & More

A quick note about a couple of new books featuring grown-up mother-daughter relationships. Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret life of Bees) and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, just this month published Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story and are currently on the book-selling circuit talking about their adventures in the context of their developing relationship.  Then there’s Home Safe, the latest novel by Elizabeth Berg featuring a Gift of the Magi surprise, which addresses the depth of a widow’s loneliness and despair along with the boundaries she crosses – repeatedly – in her relationship with her grown daughter.  The first offers those of us in the third third some promise as a “How-to;” the second is more of a “How-Not-to,” but a good read nevertheless.