{"product_id":"the-bridge-ladies-a-memoir-9780062354471","title":"The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's \"don't ask, don't tell\" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns darkly funny and deeply moving, \u003cem\u003eThe Bridge Ladies\u003c\/em\u003e is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLerner, Betsy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBetsy Lerner is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Forest for the Trees\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFood and Loathing\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and the Tony Godwin Prize for Editors, and was selected as one of PEN's Emerging Writers. Lerner is a partner with the literary agency Dunow, Carlson \u0026amp; Lerner and resides in New Haven, Connecticut. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526789632274,"sku":"9780062354471","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f86fb42c-64ba-4c26-853e-0eba8a6fec65.jpg?v=1731283496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bridge-ladies-a-memoir-9780062354471","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}