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      • Coping with personal problems
        April 2009

        The Twelve Sacred Traditions Of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law

        by Haywood Smith

        A very Southern mother-in-law's humorous advice to mothers-in-law everywhere. From the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club. Bestselling author Haywood Smith and her pals have lots of personal experience in the joys, sorrows, pitfalls and flat-out hysteria of Mother-in-Lawness. Now Smith offers a handy and fun booklet of pithy advice to mothers-in-law everywhere. Smiths sassy observations and gentle wisdom are delivered with her trademark southern charm, packing the sweet, heady punch of bourbon ice cubes melting in a mint julep. The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law is the perfect gift book for showers, engagement parties, family celebrations or just to share with that special DIL (Daughter-in-Law) or SIL (Son-in-Law). It can even safely be given to a Mother-in-Law

      • Memoirs
        August 2020

        A Room with a Darker View

        Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

        by Claire Phillips

        Claire Phillips’ elegantly written and unflinching memoir about her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed in mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease. Told in fragments, the work reflects back to her family history in England and Zimbabwe, where she visits to learn about the medical legacy of her grandfather, Michael Gelfand. As she breaks the family silence about her mother’s schizophrenia, Phillips reframes hospitalizations, paranoia, illness, and caregiving through a feminist lens.

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