Don't Call Me Mother
eBook - ePub

Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

  1. 380 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

About this book

"I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . ." At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers's compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself. This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family's legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2013
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781938314087
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigraph
  5. Introduction to the New Edition
  6. Preface
  7. 1 - Tracks to My Heart
  8. 2 - There Be Dragons
  9. 3 - Enid and Aunt Helen
  10. 4 - Night
  11. 5 - Liebestraum
  12. 6 - Daddy is Magic
  13. 7 - Liberace
  14. 8 - The Plains is Our Mother
  15. 9 - The Mississippi Valley Cradle
  16. 10 - Blanche and the Garden
  17. 11 - Ghosts of the Past
  18. 12 - Grandpa the Prayer Man
  19. 13 - Spare the Rod
  20. 14 - Lemon Meringue Pie
  21. 15 - Mother's Shadow
  22. 16 - Birthplace in Wapello
  23. 17 - The Music Man
  24. 18 - Finding Beauty
  25. 19 - Who do You Want More
  26. 20 - Hate Letters and Harrison
  27. 21 - Sex and Beethoven
  28. 22 - The Facts of Life and Death
  29. 23 - The Wedding Dress and Gram's Secrets
  30. 24 - Looking for Lewis
  31. 25 - Saved
  32. 26 - Happy Twelfth Birthday
  33. 27 - Welcome as a Snake
  34. 28 - Thirteen
  35. 29 - Swan Song
  36. 30 - Wasteland
  37. 31 - God's in His Heaven
  38. 32 - Sweet Sixteen
  39. 33 - You Can Wish Upon a Star
  40. 34 - Wheat Fields on a June Evening
  41. 35 - Who Am I
  42. 36 - Alma
  43. 37 - I Have been Waiting and Hoping
  44. 38 - Endings and Beginnings
  45. 39 - Leaving at Last
  46. 40 - Don't Call Me Mother
  47. 41 - Becoming a Mother
  48. 42 - Return of the Bad Dream
  49. 43 - Legacies
  50. 44 - Gram
  51. 45 - Beside the Road
  52. 46 - Amanda
  53. 47 - Etchings of the Past
  54. 48 - For the Grace of Dan
  55. 49 - The California Zephyr
  56. 50 - Don't Call Me Grandmother
  57. 51 - Lost
  58. 52 - I'm Not Your Daughter
  59. 53 - Motherless Child
  60. 54 - Don't Tell Them You're My Daughter
  61. 55 - The Diagnosis Manic Depression
  62. 56 - Requiem for a Ghost Mother
  63. 57 - Epilogue
  64. 58 - Afterword
  65. Appendix
  66. Acknowledgments
  67. About the Author

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