Our Grandmothers

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randmothers
From well-known photographers Annie Leibovitz, Judy Dater, and Keri Pickett (author of the best-seller Love in the 90S) to young students who've never before been published, Our Grand/notherd gathers together a remarkably diverse group of women with fresh, honest, and loving perspectives on the life-affirming relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. Each contributor provides a portrait of her grandmother, herself, and a short essay describing their relationship. The results are simply amazing. Each portrait touches the heart and reveals something profound about love, compassion, and family.
Included in this visionary book are the personal statements of 74 women from every corner of America. Women of all ages, from photographers who are grandmothers themselves to a four-year-old girl. Women of diverse racial, ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds. Women who loved their grandmothers, a few who didn't, and some who never had the chance.
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6)ur
randmothers
From well-known photographers Annie Leibovitz, Judy Dater, and Keri Pickett (author of the best-seller Love in the 90S) to young students who've never before been published, Our Grand/notherd gathers together a remarkably diverse group of women with fresh, honest, and loving perspectives on the life-affirming relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. Each contributor provides a portrait of her grandmother, herself, and a short essay describing their relationship. The results are simply amazing. Each portrait touches the heart and reveals something profound about love, compassion, and family.
Included in this visionary book are the personal statements of 74 women from every corner of America. Women of all ages, from photographers who are grandmothers themselves to a four-year-old girl. Women of diverse racial, ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds. Women who loved their grandmothers, a few who didn't, and some who never had the chance.
In faded family portraits dating back to the 1800s, museum-quality platinum prints, family snapshots, and computer-generated collages are images of farm grannies and society dames; grandmas who sewed and cleaned their way through the Depression, others who ran small businesses to support their families; Asian grandmothers with bound feet; peasant grandmas from the old country; immigrants in the new world; Jewish grandmothers with the foods they cook; and beloved adopted and surrogate grandmothers — aunts, godmothers, or in-laws who have taken the place of blood relations.
Somewhere in these pages, every woman will see the shadow of herself and a glimmer of her own ancestral histoiy.
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