Title: Circling my mother /
Authors: Gordon, Mary, 1949-
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Gordon, Mary, Family.; Authors, American Family relationships; Mothers and daughters United States Biography.
Abstract: The author shares the life story of her mother, Anna Gagliano Gordon--a hard-working single mother whose life was shaped by polio, alcoholism, and dementia--and discusses their relationship and her role as a daughter.
Contents: Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday -- My mother and her bosses -- My mother : words and music -- My mother and her sisters -- My mother and her friends -- My mother and priests -- My mother and my father -- My mother and the great world -- My mother's body -- Bonnard and my mother's death.