{"product_id":"it-never-ends-mothering-middle-aged-daughters-9781631522789","title":"It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters","description":"\u003ci\u003eIt Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise. Mothers speak openly about the ongoing effects of the past on the present, the cultural, familial, and interpersonal conflicts that remain, and the varied and often invisible ways they continue mothering. As mothers enter the last decades of their lives, their roles with their daughters often shift and change in complicated ways. Now that they are no longer central in caring for them as they once were, many experience a recalibrating of authority, autonomy, and independence. Their courage is apparent as they reflect on the mistakes they've made, acknowledge their regrets, and search to come to terms with their relationships as they now are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNan Fink Gefen is the author of \u003ci\u003eStranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Jewish Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClear Lake: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the IndieFab Gold Award for general fiction. After fifteen years in practice as a psychotherapist, she became the cofounding publisher in 1986 of \u003ci\u003eTikkun\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, a journal of politics, culture, and society. In 2007 she founded \u003ci\u003ePersimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty\u003c\/i\u003e, where she remains as publisher. Nan lives with her husband in Berkeley CA. Their blended family includes seven children and ten grandchildren. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSandra Butler is the author of \u003ci\u003eConspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second book, \u003ci\u003eCancer in Two Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, coauthored with Barbara Rosenblum, was the winner of the 1991 Lambda Literary Award. She is also the co-producer of the award-winning documentaries \u003ci\u003eCancer in Two Voices\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRuthie and Connie: Every Room in the House\u003c\/i\u003e. She has two middle-aged daughters and a rich community of women friends.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873923469586,"sku":"9781631522789","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e30b310f-0b06-4d9f-b52c-034d767bebd0.jpg?v=1737973713","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/it-never-ends-mothering-middle-aged-daughters-9781631522789","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}