The Middle of Everything – Memoirs of Motherhood Herman Paperback 9780803248311

The Middle of EverythingMemoirs of Motherhood\nAuthor(s): Michelle Herman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803248311, 978-0803248311\nSynopsis\nWhen she was three months old, Michelle Herman's daughter, Grace, went on a hunger strike. At six, she suffered what can only be described, in the old-fashioned way, as a breakdown. And at the ripe old age of eight, she began a study of the nature of \""true romance.\"" Motherhood may come naturally, but it doesn't necessarily come easilycertainly not as easily as it seemed to this mother when she vowed to do a better job than her own mother had. But the real trouble started when Herman decided that \""better\"" wasn't good enough: she would be the perfect [url] memoir from the front lines of motherhood by a longtime writer of fiction, The Middle of Everything weaves a daughter's memories of her Brooklyn childhood in the 1950s and 1960s, and the shadow .