A Good Enough Daughter: A memoir - Softcover

"A Good Enough Daughter is an elegant and delightfully honest memoir of a girl's rebellion and a woman's resolution. In this beautifully written and captivating book, Alix Kates Shulman recalls her fierce struggle for independence from the parents she now is called upon to shepherd through their decline and death. In the process, she comes to understand that she not only can go home again but that she never fully left. Her story--written with wit, charm and a delicious sense of irony at life's plots--will strike a deep chord in all of us who must eventually seek reconciliation with the past we tried so hard to leave behind."
-- Lillian Rubin, author of The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past

"A Good Enough Daughter is more than a good enough book. Alik Kates Shulman took that most fearful of journeys--the one back home."
-- Rita Mae Brown

"Once again, as she has done repeatedly since Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, Alix Kates Shulman has provided an eloquent baedeker to the bumpy terrain modern women find themselves traversing. As more and more of us live to unprecedented ages, inheriting our parents' care, may we do so with Alix's grace, insight, and good humor."
-- Nancy Mairs, author of Remembering the Bone House

"Alix Kates Shulman takes on the most daunting of challenges a contemporary memoirist can face--a happy childhood and a loving set of parents--and brings it off triumphantly, thanks to her literary skill, compassion, sense of humor and incorruptible honesty. Here is that rarest form of memoir 'payback,' wherein even the narcissism of remorse has been understood and purified. The result is a uniquely wise, perceptive, bittersweet and emotionally satisfying book."
-- Philip Lopate,author of Portrait of My Body and The Art of the Personal Essay

"A stunning memoir; Alix Kates Shulman is a brilliant and completely captivating writer."
-- Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger and The Mother Dance

"A stunning memoir. Shulman is a brilliant and completely captivating writer."
--Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger

"Shulman takes on the most daunting of challenges a contemporary memoirist can face--a happy childhood and a loving set of parents--and brings it off triumphantly in this uniquely wise, perceptive, bittersweet, and emotionally satisfying book."
--Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait of My Body

"As more and more of us live to unprecedented ages, inheriting our parents' care, may we do so with Alix's grace, insight, and good humor."
--Nancy Mairs, author of Remembering the Bone House