The Year My Mother Came Back : A Memoir (Paperback)

from kremsa

I really enjoyed reading Alice Eve Cohen's "The Year My Mother Came Back". I am extremely thankful to have received this Goodreads Giveaway and to be introduced to Cohen's writing. "The Year My Mother Came Back" is a memoir about a difficult year in Cohen's life. Her eldest adopted daughter is le...

from whitreidtan

Alice Eve Cohen writes beautiful, honest memoirs. Her first memoir, What I Thought I Knew was a searing portrait of her unexpected pregnancy and the complicated feelings around it. In this second memoir, Cohen looks at the mother daughter relationship through the lens of medical procedures, cance...

from mandersj73

What a beautifully written memoir about a horribly difficult year in this woman's life. With a breast cancer diagnosis for herself, a terribly painful leg-lengthening process for her 8-year-old daughter, and the experience of connecting with the birth mother of her eldest college-aged daughter, A...

from UnderMyAppleTree

In this candid memoir about a difficult year in the author's life, she comes to terms with her relationship with her mother and events from her childhood. Through conversations with her mother, we learn of her mom's own battle with cancer, its secrecy and shame, her unhappiness at being the stay-...

from debristow

I received this book as part of the member giveaway program. What a great story of a woman who reflects back on her relationship with her mother while she is a mother herself. As the author's relationship with her mother deals with not only the everyday events, the added strain of her mother's di...