{"product_id":"mamas-girl-9781573225991","title":"Mama's Girl","description":"On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, \u003cb\u003eVeronica Chambers\u003c\/b\u003e mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her often troubled family life, and the demands of being overachieving and underprivileged. Her mother--a Panamanian immigrant--was too often overwhelmed by the task of raising Veronica and her difficult younger brother on her meager secretary's salary to applaud her daughter's achievements. From an early age, Veronica understood that the best she could do for her mother was to be a perfect child--to rewrite her Christmas wish lists to her mother's budget, to look after her brother, to get by on her own.\u003cp\u003eThough her mother seemed to bear out the adage that \"black women raise their daughters and mother their sons,\" Veronica never stopped trying to do more, do better, do it all. And now, as a successful young woman who's achieved more than her mother dared hope for her, she looks back on their mother-daughter bond. The critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eMama's Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, startlingly honest memoir, in which Chambers shares some important truths about what we all really want from our mothers--and what we can give in return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVeronica Chambers\u003c\/b\u003e is a prolific author, best known for her critically acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eMama's Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e She coauthored the award-winning memoir \u003ci\u003eYes, Chef\u003c\/i\u003e with chef Marcus Samuelsson, as well as Samuelsson's young-adult memoir \u003ci\u003eMake It Messy\u003c\/i\u003e, and has collaborated on four \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers, most recently \u003ci\u003e32 Yolks\u003c\/i\u003e, which she cowrote with chef Eric Ripert. She has been a senior editor at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlamour.\u003c\/i\u003e Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, she writes often about her Afro-Latina heritage. She speaks, reads, and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish. She is currently a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. Her upcoming novel is \u003ci\u003eThe Go-Between.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873606799634,"sku":"9781573225991","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62c4b303-82fa-444a-8eeb-42e8f8e2a502.jpg?v=1737943604","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mamas-girl-9781573225991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}