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Room To Grow
Child of Mine
The Conversation Begins
The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about
Living Feminism
, Christina Baker Kline and Christina Looper Baker,
(Bantam):  The first book to take an honest, in-depth look at the difficulties
and rewards of being a feminist mother and to ask prominent feminist
daughters whether their mother's vision was successfully or unsuccessfully
transmitted to them while growing up.  In THE CONVERSATION BEGINS,
Baker and Kline draw on talks with a diverse range of mothers who
experienced the era of women’s liberation and their daughters, who are
now reshaping the movement to suit their own needs.  The book presents
revealing first-person narratives based on interviews with more than 30
sets of mothers and daughters – comprising the heart of this testament to
the strength of American feminism and the bond between feminist mothers
and daughters.

Reviews:
“These stories alone make fascinating reading, but the book goes deeper …
Unsettlingly revealing.”
-- The Women’s Review of Books

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Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother, edited by
Christina Baker Kline
(Hyperion): From mothers-in-law to obstetricians,
advice for new mothers is not hard to come by.  But fellow voices – new
mothers who talk frankly about doubting their own sanity, obsessing over
their newborns’ health, wondering if they’ve made a mistake – are moving
and rare.  Candid, compassionate, often laugh-out-loud funny, the thirty
writers in this unique collection create a community of shared experience
no childcare manual can match. Here are women who know the secrets,
triumphs, and inexpressible longings hidden in a mother’s heart … and
reach out a caring hand to all of us as they speak their minds.

Reviews:
“Powerful stories … The strength of these essays lies in their honesty and
their focus on a variety of experiences, which will validate many women’s
feelings of both joy and ambivalence in the early months of
motherhood.”          
-- Publishers Weekly

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Room to Grow:  22 Writers Encounter the Pleasures and
Paradoxes of Raising Young Children
, edited by Christina Baker Kline
(St. Martin’s): Harnessing the writing skill of a score of top contemporary
writers, Christina Baker Kline has crafted a collection of essays that
touches the core of modern parenthood.  A remarkable exploration of the
parenting experience, ROOM TO GROW eloquently discloses those
moments of joy and heartache, closeness and separation, wonder and
exasperation, amazement and exhaustion that parents encounter every
day with their young children.

Reviews:
“The writing and the experiences are rich enough that one can even
recommend the book to nonparent friends.”          
-- Kirkus Reviews

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Novels

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Should Be

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Nonfiction

About Face:
Women Write
About What
They See
When They
Look in the
Mirror

Child of Mine
Writers Talk
about the First
Year of
Motherhood

Room to Grow
22 Writers
Encounter the
Pleasures &
Paradoxes of
Raising Young
Children

The
Conversation
Begins
Mothers &
Daughters Talk
about Living
Feminism
About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look
In The Mirror
, edited by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt
In About Face, twenty-three women write about the simple yet radical act
of looking -- really looking -- in the mirror.  In essays that reveal truths
about the self in the world and which examine the societal prism through
which we view -- and judge -- each other, the contributors in this collection
take the cultural conversation about beauty to a deeper level.  

Contributors include Kathryn Harrison, Jennifer Baumgardner, Alix Kates
Shulman, Patricia Chao, Catherine Texier, Meredith Maran, Alice Elliott
Dark, Benilde Little, Marina Budhos, and Pamela Redmond Satran.

Publication Date:  June 18, 2008
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About Face