Mother Daughter Me, an Oprah 'Book of the Week', is veteran New York Times journalist Katie Hafner's riveting, emotionally gripping, funny - and ultimately uplifting - memoir. It chronicles Hafner's multigenerational living experiment with her elderly mother - whose drinking had caused her to lose custody of Hafner at age ten - and teenage daughter.
The anticipated "Year in Provence" quickly deteriorated, as Hafner found herself sandwiched squarely between her obligation to an aging parent - a woman she barely knew - and her responsibility for her own child. Not only was she caught between the constant needs of both her mother and her teenager, but found herself surprised by the anger and resentment she felt toward her mother, emotions that she had carried with her, unaware, for decades.
