Conversations With My Mother

By Darlene Machtan

Darlene Machtan, author of Conversations With My Mother, shares heartfelt, intimate, and often humorous one-sided conversations with her deceased mother. The topics are so universal that grieving adult children will easily relate and find comfort.

The issues of: carrying on new family responsibility and roles major conflicts among siblings a parent's remarriage and the decline and death of other significant individuals

are all "discussed" between mother and daughter with such honesty and emotion the reader seems to be an integral part of that conversation.

Stories of love, laughter, disagreements, dancing, friendships, and futures will leave readers answering Machtan's question "...or is it only in our family that such stories abound?" with a resounding, "No."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595330576
• ISBN13: 9780595330577
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Genuine

I truly hated the thought of having to put this book down while I was reading. The writing is so real and genuine. Some chapters had my eyes well up with tears while others had me smiling and chuckling. Whether or not you have experienced the death of a close family member, anyone who is part of a family will be able to make connections and understand the language of relationships, as well as the role we each play within. This book is a testimony that the human heart "breaks"--sometimes again, and again, and again--but it also can, and will, heal.