Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

Not Becoming My Mother

and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

By Ruth Reichl
(Penguin Audio, Compact Disc, Abridged, 9780143144816)

Publication Date: April 21, 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Hardcover

Categories: Personal Memoirs, Women

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the May 2009 Indie Next List

“Ruth Reichl does a wonderful job of showing us the person at the heart of her mother, Miriam Reichl -- a woman who struggled against the constraints of 1950s American culture and who encouraged her daughter to enter a world that she herself so desperately wanted to belong to but could not access.”

-- Lisa Stefanacci, The Book Works, Del Mar, CA

Description

Unabridged CDs, 2 CDs, 2 hours

Read by the author

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers.

About the Author

Ruth Reichl is the editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and the author of the bestsellers Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples. She has been the restaurant critic at the New York Times and the food editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Ruth Reichl: A New Book And The End Of 'Gourmet'

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009

The editor in chief of Gourmet joins Terry Gross to discuss the surprise announcement that the venerable magazine will publish its final edition in November. Along with recipes and regrets, she'll talk about her new recipe book, Gourmet Today. More at NPR.org

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