I can’t think of toxic mother-daughter relationships without hearing Joan Crawford screech about no wire hangers! Or remember the sinister Mrs. Coulter in Philip Pullman’s brilliant novel The Golden Compass, trying to lure her daughter Lyra into giving up the precious alethiometer. (And who was Cinderella’s real mother, anyway, who…
Hank Phillippi RyanSeptember 17, 2020
I wanted a perfect Mother’s Day selection of books, but not about perfect mothers. Because bad mothers — in fiction at least — are more intriguing. So I asked myself: What books have bad mothers? And I answered in a whispery little voice: your own. Well, that was surprising. But…
Hank Phillippi RyanMay 7, 2020
What if one day you discovered that the parents who raised you weren't your parents at all? Or that the man you thought was your dad wasn't your dad? Or that some other secret about your lineage had been kept from you? Countless adoptees and other children have gone through…
BookTribAugust 17, 2020
