Comment écrire sa propre histoire lorsqu’on est empêché par le poids de celle de toutes les autres, ou lorsque celle-ci nous échappe ? Digne descendante d’une lignée de femmes dérangées et d’un père absent, Ève cherche à en apprendre...
Mothers and daughters
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Author:Belletête, MaryseSummary: -
Author:Morrissey, DonnaSummary:It is the Fifties in an isolated outport in Newfoundland. Nothing penetrates this antiquated existence, as television, telephones, cars, even roads, elude the villagers and the only visitors are fog-bound fishermen. Here, outside of...
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Author:Krisher, TrudySummary:In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home.
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Author:Meyers, SusanSummary:Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her...
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Author:Khelawan, Rajni MalaSummary:Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage,...
- Author:Jimenez, AbbySummary:
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly. Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the...
- Author:Knight, CheleneSummary:
A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community located in...
- Author:Wang, WeikeSummary:
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily...
- Author:Lott, BretSummary:
Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband...
- Author:Lamarche, ClaudeSummary:
«J’ai cinq ans et j’m’ai tué», a dit un personnage célèbre. Rafaëlle aussi a cinq ans, mais elle ne s’est pas tuée. Du moins, pas encore. Rafaëlle est une fillette exceptionnelle. Dotée d’une intelligence et d’une sensibilité hors du...
- Author:Mokeddem, MalikaSummary:
Selma Moufid raconte les voyages qu'elle a entrepris pour parler à sa mère et tenter de briser enfin le silence. Cette confrontation la renvoie à une réalité cruelle : si sa génitrice n'est qu'une pâle figure de Médée, d'autres femmes l...
- Author:Winston, SherriSummary:
Ten-year-old Jada Sly is an artist and a spy-in-training. When she isn't studying the art from her idols like Jackie Ormes, the first-known African American cartoonist, she's chronicling her spy training and other observations in her...
- Author:Macomber, DebbieSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful...
- Author:Pinborough, SarahSummary:
Forty-year-old Emma has a good life until she begins displaying symptoms her insane mother once did: lost time and an inability to sleep. Now she must unravel the past to protect the present.
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Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a...
- Author:BROOKNER, AnitaSummary:
Eighteen year old Maud is invited to spend the summer in her aunt's large country house where she meets two men, one beautiful and ruthless, the other a quiet dreamer, both of whom will profoundly affect her life.
- Author:Williams, Kenneth T.Summary:
In Care is about a mother's quest to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, was addicted to cocaine, and had her first daughter taken from her when she was...
- Author:Grimaldi, VirginieSummary:
Et si le bonheur se trouvait juste sous nos yeux ? Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle...
- Author:Grimaldi, VirginieSummary:
Élu livre favori des Français. Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit-déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle dans laquelle elle...
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her. The legacy of violence continues in her daughter's...
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