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Powerful memoir by the adult easy child daughter of a lifelong difficult child mother
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 441348"><p>Hound Dog, you're remembering Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much Is True," which is, as you note, a terrific and harrowing read. </p><p></p><p>Dashcat, I met Jeannette Walls at an author talk in Raleigh a few years ago. During Q&A, someone asked her how in the world she could possibly forgive her mother (a difficult child through and through, to be sure), and Jeannette said, "Because I came to realize that <em>she's just a child." </em>I was very impressed by that--that kind of calm acceptance instead of the fury that I struggle with regarding my nephew difficult child. I should confess that Tara Smith is a friend of mine from my teaching days--we taught English at the same private school--and I mentioned to her, a few weeks ago at a social occasion, what Jeannette Walls had said, and she sighed sadly and agreed. Her mother, at 61, is still very much a difficult child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 441348"] Hound Dog, you're remembering Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much Is True," which is, as you note, a terrific and harrowing read. Dashcat, I met Jeannette Walls at an author talk in Raleigh a few years ago. During Q&A, someone asked her how in the world she could possibly forgive her mother (a difficult child through and through, to be sure), and Jeannette said, "Because I came to realize that [I]she's just a child." [/I]I was very impressed by that--that kind of calm acceptance instead of the fury that I struggle with regarding my nephew difficult child. I should confess that Tara Smith is a friend of mine from my teaching days--we taught English at the same private school--and I mentioned to her, a few weeks ago at a social occasion, what Jeannette Walls had said, and she sighed sadly and agreed. Her mother, at 61, is still very much a difficult child. [/QUOTE]
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