A poignant memoir of life in St. Louis from the 1940s through the 1960s focuses on the relationship between the author and her mother as they endure a terrible accident, a less-than-perfect marriage, and a mother-daughter bond that is often tenuous. 20,000 first printing.
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"A miracle of a memoir--lucid, elegant, sensuous, funny, acute. American Daughter
deserves to become an American classic."
---Phillip Lopate
A dance critic and historian, Elizabeth Kendall is the author of Where She Danced: The Birth of American Art-Dance and The Runaway Bride: Holly-wood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s. She lives in New York City.
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