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More Books For Mom

Ann Pleshette Murphy advises moms to talk to each other about their experiences so they understand common feelings and gain new
insights. Here are some mom-written and mom-centered books — with Jewish perspectives — that fall right in line with that suggestion:

Every Mother Is a Daughter: The
Neverending Quest for Success, Inner
Peace, and a Really
Clean Kitchen by
Perri Klass and
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Sheila Solomon
Klass (Ballantine
4,1,teA.,
Books; $23.95) has
two voices. The nar-
rative interweaves
ideas on various
subjects from
working to raising
children, expressed
by daughter and mother, both profes-
sional writers.

I Am My Mother's Daughter: Making
Peace With
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Mom Before It's
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Too Late (Basic
Books; $25) is Iris
Krasnow's vehicle
for urging women
to go beyond past
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difficulties to
establish positive
Krasiim\ connections with
their mothers.
Drawing on her experiences with her
84-year-old mother, Krasnow offers
her approach to overcoming anger,
guilt and resentment.

Bari Beckett, a single working mother
A s- erford, tells how she
who lives
turned her life
around in HaVe
You Had Enough?
Uncensored Advice
From a Working
Woman (Lulu.com ;
$14.95). Beckett
Uncensored Advice tells how she got
From A Working Woman
through eating
disorders, failed
relationships and
plastic surgery to find a comfortable
place for herself and her family.

Hope Edelman, who lost her mother
when she was only
17, has written
books to relate
how that tragedy
affected her at
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THE PAOLNTS WE BEL 0‘it
• Mothers: How
Mother Loss
Shapes the
Parents We
Become (HarperCollins; $25.95) is full
of personal stories, practical tips and
psychological insights.

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The joy of motherhood is part of
Bonnie Fuller's self exploration in The ,
Joys of Much Too
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The Perfect Guy,
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(Fireside/Simon
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$24). The author,
a magazine executive who oversees
the celebrity news tabloid Star among
others, extols the virtues of squeezing
the most out of every chaotic minute
amid a happy, unbalanced life.

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Susan Shapiro Barash writes about
competition among women in Tripping
the Prom Queen:
The Truth
About Women
and Rivalry (St.
Martin's Press;
$22.95). Her book
probes all kinds
of situations and
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Screenwriter
Clancy Sigal
remembers his
mother in A Woman
of Uncertain
Character: The
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Radical Adventures
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AD ENTURESc6kYMOThEP, JENNE
of My Mother
BY HER BASTARD SON Jennie (Who
CLANCY SIGAL
Always Wanted
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to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by
Her Bastard Son (Carroll & Graf; $26).
Sigal, who went along as his mother
pursued union and political adventures,
reveals the Oedipal rivalry that raged
with his often-absent father in a tale
set in 1930s gangland Chicago.

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The Song of
Hannah by Eva
Etzioni-Halevy (A
Plume Book; $14)
turns biblical sto-
ries into fiction.
The main charac-
ters, Hannah and
Pninah, married to
Elkanah, learn to
,
- live together and
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share the love of Hannah's son, the
prophet Samuel.

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