Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers: A Barnard College Collection

Fifty daughters--from literary luminaries to award-winning voices of the next generation--take on a topic at once tender and challenging: mothers. Includes essays, stories, and poems by Natalie Angier, Zora Neale Hurston, Erica Jong, Edwidee Danticat, Margaret Mead, and Anna Quindlen. 15 photos.