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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing"I'm reading this book right now and loving it " Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? "Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord." People "A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women." O: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in
"I'm reading this book right now and loving it "--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?"Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord."--People
"A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women."--O: The Oprah Magazine After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a fl neur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale's and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter. Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Rita's yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship. Motherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again. Praise for Motherland "Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family."--Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 09/08/2020
ISBN: 9780399181603
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
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★★★★★ 5
An Excellent Resource for all Students of the Bible
Format: Hardcover
This is an incredible resource that looks at New Testament passages in their relation to the Old Testament. The authors go well beyond mere cross referencing and provide in-depth exegetical commentary on the New Testament and the Old Testament contexts. The writers adeptly address specific and general references by the New Testament to the Old Testament.
The authors of the chapters of the book are seasoned Biblical writers that incorporate the best from existing commentaries on their subjects in addition to offering their own profound insights. This is a rich resources that is simple, cogent, well written and easy to read. Each chapter has extensive bibliographies indicating the thoroughness of the research.
This is a resource book to definitely add to your library for personal devotional use, a writing resource or a preaching resource. I am very pleased with it so far.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2007
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Format: Hardcover
Great reading
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great book by a wonderful Christian author!
Format: Hardcover
David Jeremiah books are great reading and study material. Purchased most of his books!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Sobering yet encouraging
Format: Kindle
As always David Jeremiah is clear and precisely on target. We already see what he's pointing at. He just makes sure that we don't miss what it means both in terms of the future and in terms of what we need to do in the present.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Be ye oh so ready!!!
Format: Kindle
This treasure will get you focused on your heavenly home but not without thinking about the ones who don’t know Jesus. You will consider others and their readiness, you will being to think about what can you do that you haven’t already done. But thought the leading of the Holy Ghost, Lord what can I do??? Be the Bible that they can see, see what you say, the love of God, the peace of God resting on you causing others to question do they really have it as good as they think, because if they don’t have Jesus Christ, the answer is No. Be the one they can turn to as they consider their final resting place. Trust in the Lord and the power of the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024