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Title: No more memoirs, please.
Review: This is another boring exploration of the narcissistic fixation of two southern women, locked into each other's neurosis. The book fails to make a case for the mother's background as the foundation for her rigid view of the world and the shallow values she adopts for herself and for her children. Rather, it exposes her as unable to maximize the opportunities she has been given to grow intellectually and spiritually as she continues to attempt to maintain control over the development of her siblings and her own children. This struggle between mother and daughter would ideally be conducted in private therapy rather than in published form. At the conclusion of the book, one is forced to ask, "Where is the redemption?"
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