Eye of my heart
Subtitle: 27 writers reveal the hidden pleasures and perils of being a grandmother
By: edited by Barbara Graham ; introduction by Mary Pipher
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780061474163
Subjects: Grandmothers; Grandchildren; Anecdotes
Description: "In Eye of my heart, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode myths and stereotypes and tell the whole crazy, complicated truth about being a grandmother in today's world."--Jacket.
Notes: Hardcover edition originally published: 2009.
Table of contents: title: Your sixty-year-old: friend or foe? / Molly Giles; title: How I got to be queen of England / Elizabeth Berg; title: What counts / Beverly Lowry; title: Nana / Roxana Robinson; title: Now you see me, now you don't / Lynne Sharon Schwartz; title: If you knew Harry; title: / Susan Shreve; title: What I want to be when I grow up / Virginia Ironside; title: Facebook grandma / Rona Maynard; title: Sitting here in limbo / Jill Nelson; title: La-Z-Nana / Abigail Thomas; title: Ten straight days / Beverly Donofrio; title: Angel baby / Marita Golden; title: When things go tilt / Claire Roberts; title: The road to imperfection / Judith Guest; title: The age thing / Kate Lehrer; title: How things happen / Sallie Tisdale; title: The rivals / Judith Viorst; title: Eye of my heart / Barbara Graham; title: Gained in translation / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Déjà vu / Marcie Fitzgerald; title: The owie tree / Sandra Benitez; title: Grandmothers should be seen and not heard / Anne Roiphe; title: Making memories / Letty Cottin Pogrebin; title: On becoming an ancestor / Ellen Gilchrist; title: Everything that goes up must come down / Susan Griffin; title: Highway Helen / Lynn Lauber.