Review: Enmeshment between mothers and daughters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
If you're looking for about about self-involved, overly controlling mothers trying to quash their daughters's, graduating seniors, dreams--then this book is for you. Mothers Claire and Simone have been best friends for decades, and so are their daughters, Mariah and Rebecca. When the girls want to forgo college--Mariah to start a well planned business and Rebecca to a prestigious design school in Paris, their mothers implode.Though the women raised their daughters to be strong, independent young women, they forgot to consider that might mean  choosing paths different than the ones they had planned for the girls.This is a frustrating read, and I found myself disliking Claire and Simone for their narcissism as they struggle to hold on to their daughters and adapt to their daughters growing apart from them, a natural part of becoming adults.The book is fairly well written, but could have used better editing. I'd try another book from this author.2.5 out of 5 stars