The Road To My Daughter

Download or read book The Road to My Daughter written by Elisabeth Spencer and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabeth Spencer's daughter Milly came out as trans at the age of twenty-one. Just a few days later, in one of life's perfect storms, Spencer's husband was diagnosed with an advanced terminal illness – and so she was set on course to confront rebirth in the face of death. In this compelling and poignant memoir, Spencer recalls her emotional journey over the course of her daughter's life, as she struggles first with the mystery of Milly's constant unhappiness, then with the revelation of her coming out, through a sense of bereavement, bewilderment and guilt, culminating in her determination to help her child become her true self. Written with remarkable warmth, generosity and honesty, The Road to My Daughter is both a deeply moving meditation on motherhood and a nuanced and compassionate reflection on trans issues, illuminating not only how it feels to witness the physical and mental processes of transitioning, and the realities behind embarking on this journey together, but also what it means to be a parent.

Download or read book Not My Daughter written by Barbara Delinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Boston Globe) When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself. Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan. As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values. Now her detractors accuse her of being a lax mother, perhaps not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought-for dreams are all at risk. The emotional ties between mothers and daughters are stretched to breaking in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness. Once again, Barbara Delinsky has given us a powerful novel, one that asks a central question: What does it take to be a good mother?

Download or read book My Father, My Daughter written by Donald Schell and published by Church Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences on the famous road to Santiago de Compostela.

Download or read book The Little Virtues written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Love, Ellen written by Betty DeGeneres and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mom, I'm gay." With three little words, gay children can change their parents' lives forever. Yet at the same times it's a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but not without a struggle. Coming from a republican family with conservative values, Betty needed time and education to understand her daughter's homosexuality -- but her ultimate acceptance would set the stage for a far more public coming out, one that would change history. In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story; the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media's scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she's heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Out Project. With a mother's love, clear minded common sense, and hard won wisdom, Betty DeGeneres offers up her own very personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children, and to help sons and daughters who have been rejected by their families feel less alone.

Download or read book My Daughter America written by ILEANA CUDALB and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Daughter America is a story of three generations. Ana, within her youthful years witnesses the atrocities of the second world war . She baptized her daughter America to share the people faith in Big Brother – US Army was supposed to come and liberate the Eastern Europe subjugated by the Communist Regime. Stefania the yougest character is America’s teen-ager daughter, grown up in a petty bourgeois intellectualist atmosphere. These three women are blood related but they are separated through their attitudes. Preserving the old tradition Ana keeps the intangible rules and pushes America to respect these rules. Instead of this her daughter is eager to break the rules just for the sake of contradiction. Singing on this false aria America takes her own course but she fails. Her stubborness brings on her step sister’s suicide and this unexpected tragedy splits the family apart. Ana is afflicted with sorrow, Costea is disapointed to see his wife in agony and his daughter under suspicion of an abominable deed. Stefania comes to hate her mother and Petre becomes estranged from his wife. Not even Tudor, the object of America’s obsessive love cannot understand her plot. All these male characters seem to be strange mirrors which reflect a childish, egoistic, spoiled scatter brained woman who is obstinate to make herself unhappy and to provoke afflictions to other. This is not only tragedy which lead this family to live on the edge. The story seems to be adapted and characters moulded according with ups and dawns of the history scattered with major events of a century shaken violently by wars, revolutions, oppression, teasing of the social relations. When they were about to feel comfortable with changes and things were looking brighter all of a sudden went with the winds. In a way America is a symbol of her generation. She was born at the end of the second world was during the communist terror. Growing up like a spoiled princess far from troubles of the deprived people she rose in the world as an offshoot in a greenhouse. When she came to maturity she found herself exfoliated, without traditional and moral values. She couldn’t find who she was and she couldn’t know what she would like to do. The Revolution crushed the communist regime but broke through her life placing her on a new orbit. She became a wealthy and successful woman with the only difference that moneyed people are not happy because money is the root of all evil. America who lived in a conventional couple realized the falsity of her life and without a moment hesitation she thought about grab her happiness by force as well as she made her money. But all she could obtain was she charge herself with guilty of her sister’s death induced by her obsession for Tudor

Download or read book Random written by Craig Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't miss WATCH HIM DIE, the next edge-of-your-seat thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, CRAIG ROBERTSON - perfect for fans of Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh. Available to order now. Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a threatening figure from Glasgow's underworld begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel - with horrifying consequences. Brilliant crime fiction for fans of Stuart MacBride and Ian Rankin, Random is Craig Robertson's debut thriller and was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger. Praise for Craig Robertson: 'Robertson is doing for Glasgow what Rankin did for Edinburgh' Mirror 'I can't recommend this book highly enough' MARTINA COLE 'Brace yourself to be horrified and hooked' EVA DOLAN 'Fantastic characterisation, great plotting, page-turning and gripping. The best kind of intelligent and moving crime fiction writing' LUCA VESTE 'Really enjoyed Murderabilia - disturbing, inventive, and powerfully and stylishly written. Recommended' STEVE MOSBY 'A great murder mystery witha brilliantly realised setting and deftly painted characters' JAMES OSWALD 'Takes a spine-tingling setting and an original storyline and adds something more'Scottish Daily Record 'A perfectly constrcuted police procedural with real psychological depth' Crimefictionlover