Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the larger literary tradition: the burden of the past. Robert Barnard, a specialist in snide japery (Death of an Old Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams, who are paradigms of noblesse oblige and liberal rectitude, the Spanish Civil War has become a daily obsession...
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WAIT on a New Orleans park bench for their respective buses to arrive. Every working day, the child takes one bus to school, and the mother rides another to work. When the vehicles pull up, mother and daughter part company, as usual. But the girl realizes she has left her school books on the bench, and she runs back to retrieve them. By now the mother has boarded her own bus. With a maternal premonition of danger, the woman tries...
...When he turned toward me, he was wearing a hood, and his eyes were big flames of fire like he was the devil. He was laughing and wouldn't open the door. I couldn't get out of the bus, but I could hear my daughter yelling." The bus drives away...
...journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more as sisters than as mother and daughter. "We talk a lot, alone," says Sherri. "We are extremely close. I tell her things I tell no one else. And what I tell her not to tell...
Talking recently with a friend about what lies ahead for Bianca -- menstruation and other bodily changes, dating -- Sherri suddenly realized that when her daughter is 15 she will be only 31. "I told my friend, I don't know if I'll be ready for it," says Sherri. "I'm young myself. And my friend says, 'You'd better be ready...