基本信息出版社：Voice
页码：208 页
出版日期：2008年04月
ISBN：1401322395
International Standard Book Number：1401322395
条形码：9781401322397
EAN：9781401322397
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

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Funny, poignant, and wise, Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom is D .G. Fulford's uplifting story of how, after her father's death, she returned home to become her mother's closest companion--a move that brought her more in return than she could ever have expected.
D.G. recalls how she and her mother--a pair who are opposites in almost every way, including how they unload the dishwasher--came together to learn what it means to be best friends, and to need each other in the truest sense. Sharing her experience of the lessons, expectations, and surprises involved with caregiving, D.G. also reveals her unique perspective as daughter, mother, and grandmother--and the wonderful ways to honor four generations of family. D.G.'s eighty-eight-year-old mother, Phyllis Greene, adds her own remarkable voice, contributing her point of view at the end of each chapter.
With humor and grace, D.G. and her mom talk about keeping in touch with D.G.'s two brothers as the entire family copes with the challenges and pleasures of change and transition. Woven throughout are the stories of other mothers and daughters who, despite many hardships and sacrifices, manage to draw from their mutual love and support and embrace these bonus years together as an opportunity to celebrate each other's insight.
This is a heartwarming, refreshing, and inspiring mother-daughter story about sharing the very best years. Moving, sensitive, and above all, honest, Designated Daughter speaks to the joys and privileges of bringing generations together toward the end of life--a hopeful message for mothers and their children everywhere.
作者简介 D.G. Fulford is the bestselling author of several books, including the classic To Our Children's Children, which she wrote with her brother, Bob Greene. She is also the author of Things I'd Love You to Know, the companion fill-in journal to Designated Daughter. D.G. is as well the cofounder of TheRememberingSite.org, which makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to write, archive, share, and publish their life story.

Phyllis Greene became a first-time author at the age of eighty-two, with It Must Have Been Moonglow: Reflections on the First Years of Widowhood. She is the mother of three, the grandmother of eight, and the great-grandmother of (now!) two children. Fulford and Greene live in Columbus, Ohio.