Word: mothers
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Lily Eskelsen is a 20-year veteran of parent-teacher conferences, both in her years of teaching sixth grade at Orchard Elementary School, just outside Salt Lake City, and as the mother of two sons. She says both the ingratiators and the intimidators have it wrong because they're concerned with power relationships rather than partnership. "Parents," she says, "should think of themselves as part of a team with the teacher and the child"--and shouldn't tussle over who gets to be quarterback...
...Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping...
What does a career woman want? Evidently, her mommy. Continuing Providence's theme of regressing professional girly women, Amy takes as its heroine Judge Amy Gray (Amy Brenneman), who's returned from New York City to Hartford, Conn., to live with her social-worker mother (Tyne Daly). Amy benefits from a strong cast and a slightly harder-nosed attitude than its treacly forebear, but if this judge doesn't stop wearing her robe like a security blanket soon, she's going to try our patience...
...should have met in an elevator bank in 1969, since they lived on the same floor of a New York City building near Madison Square Garden. But while Schlant was many things--a German World War II survivor, a former Pan Am stewardess, an emigre, a divorced mother (she was married to an Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill...
...blue eyes on display as she leads girlfriends into the New Jersey surf--giggling about how the waves break up cellulite--or pulls her husband onto a hotel dance floor after a serious speech. "She brings him joy and laughter. They tease each other a lot," says St. Onge, mother of Schlant's four grandchildren. Friends say Schlant relaxes Bradley and, when need be, defuses his icy temper. "She lets him be himself," says Cornel West, a Harvard professor and longtime Bradley friend. "She comes back and accesses his charming side. And soon he's back on track...