MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 14289010B42141
English Summary/英文概要： A rich and luminous novel about three generations of women in one family: the love they share, the dreams they refuse to surrender, and the secrets they hold
Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhood—the softness of her eight-month-old daughter’s skin, the lovely weight of her child in her arms—but in trading her artistic dreams to care for her child, Sam worries she’s lost something of herself. And she is still mourning another loss: her mother, Iris, died just one year ago.
When a box of Iris’s belongings arrives on Sam’s doorstep, she discovers links to pieces of her family history but is puzzled by much of the information the box contains. She learns that her grandmother Violet left New York City as an eleven-year-old girl, traveling by herself to the Midwest in search of a better life. But what was Violet’s real reason for leaving? And how could she have made that trip alone at such a tender age?
In confronting secrets from her family’s past, Sam comes to terms with deep secrets from her own. Moving back and forth in time between the stories of Sam, Violet, and Iris, Mothers and Daughters is the spellbinding tale of three remarkable women connected across a century by the complex wonder of motherhood.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 藉由女人所扮演不同的角色女兒、妻子、母親，拼湊出最溫情的人生故事
Samantha沉浸在初為人母的喜悅中。看著襁褓中的嬰兒，她內心激動不已，但這份喜悅並未全然沖淡喪母之痛，她多麼渴望與過世的母親Iris分享。
這天家門前的台階上出現一只盒子，盒裡放的是母親的遺物。一本聖經和多張紙條，開始拼湊出她們的故事....
外婆Violet年幼時流落街頭。現實的殘酷，迫使Violet放棄童真，選擇成長變堅強。十一歲時她決定搭上開往遠方的孤兒列車，幼小的她為何作出這樣的決定，列車的終點站是幸福的所在嗎？
母親Iris癌症末期，面對走到盡頭的人生，想起過往點滴...那些得與失，不捨與不甘。最後這段人生路該如何走完，她想告訴陪伴在身旁的Samantha什麼事情？
母親辭世後Samantha內心所留下的空洞該如何填平？內心的紛擾尚未解決，又有新的問題出現。她夢想成為一名藝術家，但變成孩子的母親後還能繼續追逐夢想嗎？扮演母親的角色時，外婆和母親的故事會如何影響她？
人生各階段中女人在家庭扮演角色是女兒、妻子、母親。這個家庭中的三位不同世代女人，Violet、Iris、Samantha。面對困難時是如何展現勇氣扮演這些角色。(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：“Wonderful...A perfect book-club pick…What mothers leave daughters is loud and proud in this book…It will prime conversations about your own choices, which may change your whole sense of self, or at least make you feel not so alone.”---Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A poignant look at three generations struggling with loss and love." ---Good Housekeeping
"Tender...perceptive...Mothers and Daughters should appeal to both of its titular groups, and may even spark the kinds of discussions and openness so uncharacteristic of many earlier parent-child relationships."---The Capital Times
“Mothers and Daughters showcases Meadow’s ability to create generations of fully formed women as they navigate life-defining moments…This is the story of how much we often don’t know about the people who raise us.”---Bookslut.com
"Rae Meadows has written a richly textured novel of three generations of mothers and daughters who by finding each other, find themselves. In these beautifully interwoven stories of birth and death, love and loss, Violet, Iris, and Samantha explore the genetic threads that connect each to the others. Mothers and Daughters is a powerful novel of women’s secrets and strength."--- Sandra Dallas, New York Times best-selling author of Prayers for Sale and Whiter Than Snow
"A little girl boards New York’s orphan train at the turn of the 20th century and shapes generations to follow in this satisfying portrait of the many faces of motherhood."---Kirkus
"A book you’ll want to sit and read straight through...It will have you considering your own choices and those of your mother: What has she chosen not to tell you? What happened before you? What do you want to know?"---Bookpage
"An engaging story of three generations of strong women and the choices they make."---Library Journal
About the Author/作者介绍： Rae Meadows is the author of Calling Out, which received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction, and No One Tells Everything, a Poets & Writers Notable Novel. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Rae Meadow作品曾獲得猶他州圖書獎讀書獎(Utah Book Award for fiction)。現與家人定居於明尼蘇達州，並持續不停地創作。
Format:HARDCOVER
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