If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter's Notebook
Language: English
Published by Harper, 2010
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst)
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New York, 2010; signed; first edition; gray paper covered boards; yellow cloth spine; minimal wear; illustrated jacket with mild wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; signed by author on title page; cancelled postage stamp on title page; Interior is clean and unmarked; 307 pages.
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- Title
- If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter's Notebook
- Author
- Rosman, Katherine
- Publisher
- Harper
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 006173523X
- ISBN 13
- 9780061735233
- Item weight
- 14 ounces
“Katherine Rosman has a great gift for articulating the yearnings of daughterhood and the mysteries of motherhood.”
— Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The Last Lecture
“Katherine Rosman’s voice rings with truth, pain, and hard-won humor as she reports from the heart in this bold, cathartic tale of a daughter’s search to find meaning in her mother’s death.... This book beats with a heart of its own.”
— Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher
In lively, intimate prose, Wall Street Journal culture reporter Katherine Rosman reconnects with her late mother by reporting on the life she led outside of her roles as mom and wife.
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From the Back Cover
Faced with the loss of her mother, Suzy, to cancer at sixty, Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Rosman longs to find answers to the questions that we all wrestle with after losing someone we love. So she does what she does best: she opens her notebook and starts investigating.
Thumbing through her late mother's address book, Rosman begins to discover a woman whose life was intricately connected to a host of characters her daughter hardly knew. Her reporting skills at the ready, she embarks on a cross-country odyssey, tracking down total strangers from whom she hopes to learn about a woman she once thought she couldn't know better. Venturing into the heart of some colorful communities, Rosman interviews friends and acquaintances of her mother's, as well as people whose relationships with her were more complex though no less potent—among them a former golf caddie, a legendary Pilates instructor, an eBay glass collector, and an immigrant doctor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. As Rosman attempts to fill in the blank spaces that may explain her mother's motivations and philosophies in building a life and in facing death, she comes to understand this woman as she never imagined she could.
Blending humor, honesty, and old-fashioned reporting, Rosman grapples with the bittersweet reality that sometimes we can't truly know someone until after she is gone. At once comforting, candid, and very funny, If You Knew Suzy is a heartfelt memoir against which readers can consider themselves and the lives of all those they love.
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A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst)
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