It's a Girl!
May 9, 2006 12:03 PM
It's a Girl!
My latest book, It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters (companion book to last November's It's a Boy) is now in print. The book has a lovely endorsement from "Motherless Daughters" author Hope Edelman and features essays by writers including Amy Bloom, Joyce Maynard, Jacqueline Mitchard, Katharine Weber, and many more. (You can read the introduction [pdf] here.) All of the writers reflect on the idiosyncratic relationship of mothers and daughters, and the ways in which our preconceived notions of girlness and gender affect how we mother our girls. You can find more information about the book here, including info about upcoming events such as my appearances this weekend in NYC. One of the more exciting things about this project is its online component: in addition to the usual readings and other events (the book was on the Today Show today and will be in USA Today tomorrow), the book is the subject of a 60-blog Blog Book Tour. Each weekday during the month of May, two or three bloggers will be writing about the book -- either running interviews, posting reviews, or generally sharing their thoughts -- and each day I'll also be writing on my own blog about each of the essays and writers in the book, in the order they appear in the book -- sharing excerpts from the essays and telling a bit of the "behind the music" stories about how these pieces came to be.
My latest book, It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters (companion book to last November's It's a Boy) is now in print. The book has a lovely endorsement from "Motherless Daughters" author Hope Edelman and features essays by writers including Amy Bloom, Joyce Maynard, Jacqueline Mitchard, Katharine Weber, and many more. (You can read the introduction [pdf] here.) All of the writers reflect on the idiosyncratic relationship of mothers and daughters, and the ways in which our preconceived notions of girlness and gender affect how we mother our girls. You can find more information about the book here, including info about upcoming events such as my appearances this weekend in NYC. One of the more exciting things about this project is its online component: in addition to the usual readings and other events (the book was on the Today Show today and will be in USA Today tomorrow), the book is the subject of a 60-blog Blog Book Tour. Each weekday during the month of May, two or three bloggers will be writing about the book -- either running interviews, posting reviews, or generally sharing their thoughts -- and each day I'll also be writing on my own blog about each of the essays and writers in the book, in the order they appear in the book -- sharing excerpts from the essays and telling a bit of the "behind the music" stories about how these pieces came to be.
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