Reading Jane: A Daughters Memoir Kennedy Susannah
After the calculated suicide of Susannah Kennedy's domineering and narcissistic mother, Susannah Kennedy grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make in this…
Specifikacia Reading Jane: A Daughters Memoir Kennedy Susannah
After the calculated suicide of Susannah Kennedy's domineering and narcissistic mother, Susannah Kennedy grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make in this gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past.Jane is to the world a charismatic personality--opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful--who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah is her beautiful only daughter, her intended protégé.All through Susannah's childhood, Jane settles once per day to chronicle her life. In those years of magnetic twosomeness, "Mommy, can I read your diaries?" is a frequent question. Jane starts off saying "Some day" and then she changes to "When you are the age I was when I wrote them," then, later, it becomes "Maybe,"