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...Anne Schreiber...
...time she was 33, Le Anne Schreiber had a resume to light up the Zeitgeist. With a marriage behind her, a master's degree from Stanford and a graduate fellowship at Harvard, she came to New York City as a writer for TIME. Her coverage of the 1976 Olympics led to a job as editor in chief of Billie Jean King's short-lived magazine womenSports. Within eight months of joining the New York Times, Schreiber became the first woman to run its sports department...
Fair enough. Being a point person in the workplace revolution carries a high risk of getting shot. Schreiber retreated to a deputy editorship at the Times Sunday Book Review, a backwater, it turned out, that was not quite the backwater she had in mind. In 1985, single and approaching the middling age of 40, she left Manhattan for the eddying pace of a trout stream in upstate New York. The scene was set for a life of house renovation, fishing, reading and writing. Instead, Schreiber was jerked back to old realities by the news that her mother was dying...
Writing in the journal form, Schreiber balances her new life against her mother's death. She achieves this satisfying parity with emotional integrity and literary tact that suggest a depth of experience the author only hints at. Wisely. The results are clear and lasting observations rather than self- justifying trendy confessions...
Descriptions of trout fishing, house repair, medical treatment and mistreatment lead to deeper connections. The stream that rushes behind Schreiber's house and the life that dwindles from her mother's body contain mysteries that must be skillfully lured to the surface. Among the enigmas is the nature of mother-daughter relationships. The moving paradox here is that Schreiber is never more of a daughter than when she must mother her dying parent...