What We're Reading

Book Reviews by the staff of the Mendocino County Library

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Molly's Daughter by Margaret Frings Keyes


Molly's Daughter: a three generation story exploring: what do women really want?

Margaret Frings Keyes has written a fascinating fictionalized account of three generations of women in her family. She takes us out into the social issues immigration, mining, unions, treatment of women, butte montana, san francisco, The Depression, war, earthquakes, the developing personal empowerment movements and much more.

Most of the issues faced by mother, daughter and granddaughter are found in most families.
Much is never acknowledged in most families. The wonderful element in Molly's Daughter is that Keyes as a therapist has cast a knowledgeable and educated eye upon both the exterior and interior lives of these 3 women.

If Molly's Daughter interests you and given our country's sudden plunge into Depression, some U S Senators trying to break the Unions as a condition to helping the auto industry, the rising number of people without jobs, families without homes, corporate greed and more, check out the Mendocino County Library catalog: http://www.mendolibrary.org and read about these subjects. Your Library cards allows you to check out books, audio, video items and to access major magazines and newspapers.

Labels: , , , , , , , ,