Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
- ISBN-10
- 1594202168
- ISBN-13
- 9781594202162
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Ruth Reichl
Description
Reflects on the author's mother, focusing on her early life as a bookstore owner and housewife and the diaries she kept which had been retrieved by her daughter after her death.
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