Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Isay, Dave; Isay, Dave |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 3/27/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“[Mom] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real.” —Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice)
“Isay brings a satisfying second collection of StoryCorps selections after the bestselling Listening Is an Act of Love. . . . Readers will encounter an emotional range from heart-wrenching to inspirational in these compelling maternal accounts.” —Publishers Weekly
Featuring StoryCorps’ most revealing stories on the subject,Mom looks across a diversity of experience to offer an entirelyoriginal portrait of motherhood. In conversations between parents andchildren, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of theAmerican mother unfolds. In these stories of profound joy and sadness,courage and despair, struggle and triumphs, we learn new truths aboutthat most primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between motherand child. With this vital contribution to the American storybook,StoryCorps has created a tribute to mothers that honors the meaning offamily and the expansiveness of the human heart.
Dave Isay’s latest book, Callings, published in 2016 from Penguin Press.
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