Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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By Ha, Robin2020., Balzar + Bray Call No: GN B Ha Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Graphic novel in which a South Korean girl named Chun and her single mother leave for America on vacation and end up staying after her mother announces she's getting married. Chun changes her name to Robin and tries to fit in at her local high school where she doesn't know the language. When her mother enrolls her in a comics drawing class, she begins to feel more at home in the United States.
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c2001., Philomel Books Call No: E POL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a story of precious family memories, based on the author's discovery of a beloved old rag doll wrapped in a letter written by her mother who had died a year earlier.
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2004., Primary, Puffin Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The presence of a doll creates a link between different generations of women in the same family and offers a mother the opportunity to share stories of the past with her daughter.
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c2001., Primary, Philomel Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Cat ResiliencySummary Note: Presents a story of precious family memories, based on the author's discovery of a beloved old rag doll wrapped in a letter written by her mother who had died a year earlier.
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By Feder, Tyler[2020]., Dial Books Call No: GN FED Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Feder, Tyler[2020]., Dial Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A graphic novel depicting the author's experience with grief after the loss of her mother, who died of uterine cancer when the author was nineteen.
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[2016], Adolescent, Catapult/Black Balloon Call No: GN B KUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Here is the story of three unforgettable women: Amy, the author, her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a family, but also of how much each generation bears the imprint of the past.
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-- I am glad my mom died2022., Simon & Schuster Call No: MEMOIR NF MCC Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A . . . memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life"--Provided by publisher.
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-- I am glad my mom died2022., Simon & Schuster Call No: B McCurdy Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Jennette McCurdy, and details her struggles as a former child actress including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her abusive and overbearing mother. Explores how her mother controlled every aspect of her life after she was cast in the TV shows, "iCarly" and "Sam & Cat," and discusses McCurdy's path to recovery after she stepped away from acting and began therapy. Examines the toxic environment child stars face in the entertainment industry.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Doubleday Call No: HI-INT B ROJ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where 'what did you dream?' was asked in place of 'how are you?' her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to 'letting the ghosts in.' So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20's that left her with amnesia an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts the family assumes 'the secrets' have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe 'the secrets' are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2018]., Little A Call No: MEMOIR NF BAR Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told with a lyrical, almost-dreamlike voice as intoxicating as the moonflowers and orchids that inhabit this world, Monsoon Mansion is a harrowing yet triumphant coming-of-age memoir exploring the dark, troubled waters of a family's rise and fall from grace in the Philippines. It would take a young warrior to survive it. Cinelle Barnes was barely three years old when her family moved into Mansion Royale, a stately ten-bedroom home in the Philippines. Filled with her mother's opulent social aspirations and the gloriously excessive evidence of her father's self-made success, it was a girl's storybook playland. But when a monsoon hits, her father leaves, and her mother's terrible lover takes the reins, Cinelle's fantastical childhood turns toward tyranny she could never have imagined. Formerly a home worthy of magazines and lavish parties, Mansion Royale becomes a dangerous shell of the splendid palace it had once been. In this remarkable ode to survival, Cinelle creates something magical out of her truth--underscored by her complicated relationship with her mother. Through a tangle of tragedy and betrayal emerges a revelatory journey of perseverance and strength, of grit and beauty, and of coming to terms with the price of family--and what it takes to grow up.
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By Didion, Joan2007, c2005., Vintage International Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Vintage Interna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recalls the weeks and months following the death of her husband of forty years and the severe illness of their only daughter, and discusses the changes that occurred in her life as a result.