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Mama's Girl
by Chambers, Veronica
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1573220302
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220309
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. L4 - DJ has some wrinkling on the top and bottom edges, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has 1" "P" stamped on the bottom, some smudge ink on the bottom edges near the spine, wrinkling on the top and bottom spine, light disocloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Veronica Chambers grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, a girl who mastered the whirling helixes of a double-dutch jump rope with the same ease and finesse she brought to her schoolwork, her.... First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder.
Synopsis
On the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, Veronica Chambers 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. Though 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 Mama's Girl 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.
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- Title
- Mama's Girl
- Author
- Chambers, Veronica
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1573220302
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220309
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BLACKS BIOGRAPHY NEW YORK N
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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