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Written by Perri Klass & Sheila Solomon Klass - Audio book narrated by Anna Fields & Carrington MacDuffie - Unabridged Nonfiction - 9 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 11 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (May 2006)

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Oh no, I’m turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother’s voice coming out of her mouth. But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it’s at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we plot and follow the arc that goes from childhood to motherhood.

Together, Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, cover more than seven decades of daughterhood and motherhood. And although they grew up in dramatically different circumstances, they find that their lives have been shaped in strangely similar ways. Sheila grew up in Brooklyn in the 1920s, a child of the city, of the Depression, and of an orthodox Jewish home where a girl’s education was considered unnecessary. She took a job as a live-in babysitter in order to be the first person in her family to go to college, and went on to become a professor of English and a working mother. Although Perri was born into a privileged academic upbringing and encouraged to follow her ambitions, her life turned out remarkably similar to her mother’s: she married an academic, had three children while working full time, and always managed to write in her spare time.

In Every Mother is a Daughter, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, at the pulls of love and affection but also at the tension, frustration, and competition inherent in any mother-daughter relationship. With different perspectives, unique voices, and powerful insight, they examine the critical issues that resonate in the lives of every mother and daughter.

About the Author: SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS is a professor of English at the City University of New York and the author of several books. PEIUU KLASS is an award-winning author of several books and a practicing pediatrician. She is the medical director of the national program Reach Out and Read, dedicated to promoting literacy as part of pediatric primary care. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About the Narrators: ANNA FIELDS has found her true home behind the microphone after beginning her career on the stage in Washington, D.C. She has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards and won the coveted Audie Award in 2004.

CARRINGTON MACDUFFIE is a recording artist and spoken-word performer whose voice acting has been featured in several independent films. She performs with her pop band, and her one-woman, spoken-word show has been staged at various venues across the western United States.