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Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the lasttime a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a booktogether about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila SolomonKlass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be idealcollaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood,daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught, ways theirlives have overlapped.
Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirroredher mother’s: Both have full-time careers (Perri is a pediatrician;Sheila is recently retired from a long career as a college Englishprofessor but goes on teaching); both have published books,articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love toread, and to pass books back and forth. They also love to travel–infact, they often take trips together (and live to tell the tale).But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more Perriand Sheila acknowledge their profound differences in circumstanceand temperament.
Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirroredher mother’s: Both have full-time careers (Perri is a pediatrician;Sheila is recently retired from a long career as a college Englishprofessor but goes on teaching); both have published books,articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love toread, and to pass books back and forth. They also love to travel–infact, they often take trips together (and live to tell the tale).But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more Perriand Sheila acknowledge their profound differences in circumstanceand temperament.