Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women about Mothers and Daughters Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	The Bonesetter	1
	from Lace Curtain	9
	from Uphill Walkers	23
	The Eldest Child	28
	from Manhattan, When I Was Young	38
	from The Mermaids Singing	51
	from What Girls Learn	58
	My Mother and Politics	71
	Mother and 'Miss E.'	77
	from The Rebel Girl	83
	from Wait Till Next Year	94
	My Mother Is Speaking from the Desert from Shadow Man	103
	from The Autobiography of Mother Jones	120
	Trinity	127
	Charting Life with a Daughter	137
	Motherlove	142
	The Child as Houseguest	147
	from A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman	152
	from Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up	171
	Wildflowers from Monkeys	189
	The Vocabulary of Absence	201
	In the Beginning from Living Out Loud	223
	The Need to Feed	229
	The Goal from The New Motherhood	237
	Contributors	243
	Permissions	249