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Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom | 
 enlarge | Authors: D.g. Fulford, Phyllis Greene
Publisher: Voice
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 68098
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401322395
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.874308460973
EAN: 9781401322397
ASIN: 1401322395
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Book Description
Funny, poignant, and wise, Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom is D .G. Fulford's uplifting story of how, after her father's death, she returned home to become her mother's closest companion--a move that brought her more in return than she could ever have expected.
D.G. recalls how she and her mother--a pair who are opposites in almost every way, including how they unload the dishwasher--came together to learn what it means to be best friends, and to need each other in the truest sense. Sharing her experience of the lessons, expectations, and surprises involved with caregiving, D.G. also reveals her unique perspective as daughter, mother, and grandmother--and the wonderful ways to honor four generations of family. D.G.'s eighty-eight-year-old mother, Phyllis Greene, adds her own remarkable voice, contributing her point of view at the end of each chapter.
With humor and grace, D.G. and her mom talk about keeping in touch with D.G.'s two brothers as the entire family copes with the challenges and pleasures of change and transition. Woven throughout are the stories of other mothers and daughters who, despite many hardships and sacrifices, manage to draw from their mutual love and support and embrace these bonus years together as an opportunity to celebrate each other's insight.
This is a heartwarming, refreshing, and inspiring mother-daughter story about sharing the very best years. Moving, sensitive, and above all, honest, Designated Daughter speaks to the joys and privileges of bringing generations together toward the end of life--a hopeful message for mothers and their children everywhere.
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Fall in love with life again! May 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Please please give yourself a great big treat and read this book. Today. I laughed out loud and wiped a few tears from my cheek. Simply put, after reading this book I fell madly in love with life again. The authors became my new best friends. Courage, hope and love are the best feelings in the whole wide world. If you have tucked them away for a while, do yourself a favor and read this book. Playing nice with others in the sandbox, laughing a little harder and hugging a hurt better are just the right things to do. So is reading this book.
a truly blessed relationship April 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tears of joy and laughter rained down my cheecks, as if by osmosis, I absorbed the love between this mother and daughter. A wonderful and moving read for all adult children and their parents.
a book that makes you laugh and cry April 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read and immediately reread this wonderful book.
The trials and the love and the sharing and letting it all "hang out" make it a must read.
The authors talk about sadness that most of us don't articulate...it must have helped them to write it..reading it made me laugh aloud and cry and learn to understand and handle the changes that come to us all as we age.
It's perfect for all generations.
Just a beautiful book. April 11, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Beautifully written by two people who are so wonderfully close and yet beautifully different -- voices that come through loud, clear, and strong. Swells your heart, breaks it, moves you, and makes you laugh. What more do you want from a book?
If Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne Lamott had a baby... and a grandmother... April 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
...she'd be DG Fulford and Phyllis Greene. This book warmed my heart and filled my soul with hope and love. I got Designated Daughter last night and read it straight through so I'm writing this before I start re-reading it again today! To see a mother and daughter grow so close at a time when so many families grow apart renewed my faith in everything from God to Early Bird Specials. This is a funny, illuminating, heart-breakingly beautiful look at aging from both sides of the spectrum. The Big Issues seem so much smaller and the Little Stuff seems so much more important now that I've read Designated Daughter.
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