A memoir of her mother written after reading her mother’s diaries and letters years following her death. Reichl has a much deeper understanding of her mother’s generation, her struggles as an educated ambitious woman whom everyone said should be fulfilled as a wife and mother. After regaling us in her funny ’Tender at the Bone’ about her mother who could not cook and had little sense about food, Reichl’s take here has a depth of understanding for her mother quite different.

posted Jul 11, 2010 at 4:32PM

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