Mother, Brace Yourself
By LORI GOTTLIEB
When I went on book tour back in 2000 for my memoir “Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self,” the questions I dreaded most weren’t about me but about my mother. As soon as the Q. and A. began, inevitably someone would call out, “What does your mom think of the book?”
I’d usually say something like, “Well, it’s hard to be written about by your daughter.” I never mentioned that I gave my mother the galley just before she boarded a plane for Paris, not so she’d have something to read on the long flight, but so she’d be 6,000 miles away
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