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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From a critically acclaimed group of writers comes an essay collection about what they wish they could share with their mothers--the hilarious, the painful, the awkward, and the downright messy. Raw and poignant, this is an anthology that will resonate with anyone who's ever had a mother." -- Back cover.
"As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After a slew of family fights, teenager Tilly Rudolph abandons her middleclass home in the suburbs and flees to the seedy underworld of Reno. She scrapes to get by, working as a prostitute and nursing various addictions, eventually drinking herself to the brink of death in a dusty trailer park. One day, after Tilly spends nearly thirty years without a family, her niece, a young cosmopolite from New York, shows up on her doorstep and changes both their...
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