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Sometime Daughter

by (author) Melanie Dugan

Publisher
Second Story Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2002
Category
General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896764672
    Publish Date
    Nov 2002
    List Price
    $18.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926920177
    Publish Date
    Nov 2002
    List Price
    $7.99

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When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence. Suddenly having endless hours to sit and think, she begins to face the issues in her life she could once avoid, particularly her estrangement from her daughter, Annie. As Ruth awaits Annie’s visit, she recalls the stormy relationship she had with her own mother and how profoundly it shaped her life.

Sometime Daughter illuminates the complex, sometimes troubled bonds between mothers and daughters, and explores one woman’s struggle to free herself and her daughter from a legacy of pain and anger.

About the author

About the Author: Melanie Dugan is a freelance journalist and library worker. She has worked as visual arts columnist for the Kingston Whig-Standard, as managing editor of a number of literary magazines, and was Associate Publisher at Quarry Press. For eight years Dugan was Margaret Atwood's personal assistant. Revising Romance is her second novel.

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