WHAT MY MOTHER GAVE ME: THIRTY-ONE WOMEN ON THE GIFTS THAT MATTERED MOST
Book ID/图书代码： 00342512B59074
English Summary/英文概要： Women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces—all written specifically for this book—include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and well-known NPR commentators.Joyce Carol Oates writes about quilts her mother knitted that were a comfort when her husband died; Rita Dove remembers a box of nail polish that taught her to paint her nails in stripes and polka dots; Lisa See, daughter of writer Carolyn See, writes about the gift of writing; Cecilia Muñoz remembers the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals; Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Judith was nine years old, the year before her mother died of alcoholism.
Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; simple joy and devastating grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 女人们如今可以从新的视角看待母女关系了：这本新作中传达了女儿们这样一种情感，母亲给予她们的不止是物质上的东西，而是能影响她们一生的精神财富，这些经验就像在她们的生活中榜样和试金石。这本书中的31个故事都是作者为了这本书而特意写的——作者包括普利策奖获奖者，常年畅销小说作者，著名的NPR评论员。
Joyce Carol Oates写了关于她母亲亲手为她做的一条被子，那时她丈夫刚去世，母亲想要安慰她；Rita Dove写的是母亲送的一盒指甲油，从此她学会了在指甲上画条纹和圆点；Lisa See，作家Carolyn See的女儿，她说母亲使她也走上了写作的道路； Cecilia Muñoz写的是母亲送给她的一个锅还有能烧一辈子的家常菜菜谱；Judith Hillman Paterson重温了母亲当年教会她冷静思考，那时候Judith9岁，一年后，她母亲就死于酒精中毒。
总而言之，作品给予读者的力量如同潮汐一般无形而有力，交替出现的光明与黑暗；简单的快乐和幻灭性的悲痛；母亲给予的爱和女儿的回报；还有的便是母亲的爱和女儿的不领情及愤怒。在这些感人肺腑的文字中我们发现无论礼物价值如何，它都阐述了母女之间不可分割的情感。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况：“如此多优秀作家的作品集合，使得这本书更加夺人眼球。我觉得这本书对母女来说都是最好的礼物，它是这么感人至深由睿智有趣，我没想到的是它甚至有点悬疑和启示的感觉。”——Margot Livesey
“母亲给我们的礼物中，所包含的浓烈和复杂的爱都体现在这本散文集中了。”——Dani Shapiro，《奉献：一本回忆录》的作者
“ [A] glittering collection . . . With such a wonderful group of authors, I knew The Best Gift Ever would be a moving and deeply intelligent book. What I hadn’t expected was that it would also be so suspenseful and so revelatory.” —Margot Livesey
“ In this remarkable collection of essays, the gifts we’re given by our mothers are unpacked in all of their wild and complicated beauty.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir
About the Author/作者介绍： ELIZABETH BENEDICT毕业于巴纳德学院，迄今为止写了五本小说，其中包括国家图书奖入围作品《慢舞》。她是散文选集《良师益友》，《缪斯和野兽》的主编，《写性学的喜悦》的作者。她的作品曾刊登在“纽约时报”，“波士顿环球报”，洛杉矶时报，君子和“赫芬顿邮报”上。ELIZABETH BENEDICT is a graduate of Barnard College and the author of five novels, including the National Book Award finalist Slow Dancing. She is the editor of the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters and is the author of The Joy of Writing Sex. She has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and the Huffington Post.
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