Parents

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

“I’m furious with Mother. She stole my childhood … I feel pierced because she played on my fears. I trusted what she did was best for me, but she met her own needs, not mine. She took advantage of a scared, defenseless little boy.” That is one of the hundreds…

Jim AlkonSeptember 14, 2021

Nonfiction

Talking to Your Mother Isn’t Always Easy

Mothers. At least for an instant, everyone has one. No mother is perfect, but some know how to mother more than others. Sometimes a mother-child relationship is a bitch. Sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes bitter-sweet. But it’s always complicated. In the essay collection What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About:…

K.L. RomoApril 26, 2019

Nonfiction

Arranged Marriage Gone Wrong: Not A Love Story

When we were writing the book, the subject came up of how I ended up marrying my husband. My best friend kept on saying that it was an arranged marriage and I would explain to her that it wasn’t. Then finally, she asked me, "Why don’t you be the judge…

Ariana MansourDecember 4, 2017

Nonfiction

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

Sometimes, things are not exactly what they seem to be. When we were writing He Never Deserved Me, the subject came up of how I ended up marrying my husband. My best friend kept on saying that it was an arranged marriage and I would explain to her that it wasn’t.…

Ariana MansourNovember 22, 2017

Nonfiction

Taking care of our parents, and ourselves

“In any given year, almost 30% of the U.S. population will be caring for an ill, disabled, or aging friend or family member.” So we are informed by Ariel Gore in her new memoir The End of Eve (Hawthorne Books, March). She goes on to explain: “The typical caregiver, it…

Melissa DuclosMarch 4, 2014

Book Club Network Nonfiction

“The Inside Ride:” Dissecting One Father-Son Relationship

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/InsideRide-2.jpg At a time when some would argue that fatherhood and manhood have become endangered concepts, The Inside Ride: A Journey to Manhood (Nicolas-Hays Inc.) by Dr. Donald Cohen and his father Dr. Max Cohen offers an extended and fearless exploration on the meaning of manhood in contemporary Western culture.…

BookTribJune 19, 2020

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

Talking to Your Mother Isn’t Always Easy

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

Taking care of our parents, and ourselves

“The Inside Ride:” Dissecting One Father-Son Relationship

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