{"product_id":"tangled-lives-isbn-9780807067956","title":"Tangled Lives","description":"Dr. Lillian Rubin's tenth book examines the lives of women as they grow from daughters into mothers and move on into the intimidating territory of old age. Tangled Lives uses pivotal events from Lillian Rubin's own life-her mother's passing, her own dramatic brush with death, her daughter's illness, and her seventy-fifth birthday-to illuminate the powerful influence the mother-daughter bond has on a woman's identity, and the profound changes that come with aging.For baby-boomer women, \u003ci\u003eTangled Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a particular gift, offering rare insight into the lives of our mothers, their mothers, and, through that process, into our own. -Peggy Orenstein, author of \u003ci\u003eSchoolgirls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlux\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This frank remembrance of a long life by a celebrated writer and therapist yields a tale rich in insights-about immigrant poverty and shame, about language and ambition, about complicated family feeling, and most wisely about growing old.\" -Alix Kates Shulman, author of \u003ci\u003eA Good Enough Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDrinking the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Looking backward and forward in life, Lillian Rubin has written a riveting, poignant, and insightful book that will make you laugh and weep at the same time.\" -Arlie Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Shift\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Time Bind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With unflinching candor and remarkable narrative grace, \u003ci\u003eTangled Lives\u003c\/i\u003e untangles the knotty mess of fear, vulnerability, shame, and resistance that accompanies the aging process. Lillian Rubin's journal precisely and unsentimentally describes the countdown to her seventy-fifth birthday, her 'coming out' as an old woman in this youth obsessed culture, the power of love in her life, and the mother-daughter drama that found resolution in the shadow of her own mortality. A riveting, must-read memoir.\" -Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of \u003ci\u003eGetting Over Getting Older\u003c\/i\u003eSociologist and psychotherapist \u003cb\u003eLillian B. Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-2014) was the author of twelve books, including \u003ci\u003e60 on Up, The Man with the Beautiful Voice, Tangled Lives, Worlds of Pain, Intimate Strangers,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJust Friends.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304351322341,"sku":"NP9780807067956","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807067956.jpg?v=1767737781","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tangled-lives-isbn-9780807067956","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}