Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
Language: English
Published by Penguin Press, 2016
- Hardcover
- New
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- Title
- Navigating Life: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
- Author
- Bergen, Margaux
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594206295
- ISBN 13
- 9781594206290
- Item weight
- 11 ounces
- Dimensions
- 5x0x8
Amy Chua, author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"
An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting tough lessons about family, work, and marriage.
You learn a few useful things at school--the three Rs come in handy, and it's good to know how to perform under pressure and wait your turn--but most of what matters, what makes you into a functioning human being, able to hold your own in conversation, find your path, know what to avoid in relationships and secure a meaningful job, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp, gut-punchingly honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world.
Margaux Bergen began writing this book when her daughter Charlotte turned nine and gave it to her right after graduation from high school, when she was setting off for her first day of college. "I am not writing this to groom or guide you to professional or academic success," she writes. "My goal is rather to give you tools that might help you engage with the world and flourish. . . . Think of this as a kind of developing bath-time wisdom."
Wise, heartbreakingly funny, and resonantly true, "Navigating Life" has invaluable lessons for students of life of all ages. It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle the bumps along the way with grace, grit, style, and ingenuity. What "The Blessings of a Skinned Knee" did for the early years of parenting, "Navigating Life" does for the next, far more perilous chapter, when new graduates are cast out on the high seas and have to learn to swim and find their way by themselves."
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