The bridge ladies: a memoir
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"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast. Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter"--
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Subjects
Autobiographies
Biography & Autobiography
Bridge clubs
Bridge clubs -- Social aspects -- United States
Electronic books
Family & Relationships
Female friendship
Female friendship -- United States
Intergenerational relations
Intergenerational relations -- United States
Lerner, Betsy
Literary agents
Literary agents -- United States -- Biography
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Older women
Older women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Women bridge players
Women bridge players -- United States
Biography & Autobiography
Bridge clubs
Bridge clubs -- Social aspects -- United States
Electronic books
Family & Relationships
Female friendship
Female friendship -- United States
Intergenerational relations
Intergenerational relations -- United States
Lerner, Betsy
Literary agents
Literary agents -- United States -- Biography
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Nonfiction
Older women
Older women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Women bridge players
Women bridge players -- United States
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9780062354488
9780062466808
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Mothers and daughters -- United States
Older women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Women bridge players -- United States
Bridge clubs -- Social aspects -- United States
Electronic books
Female friendship -- United States
Intergenerational relations -- United States
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Older women -- United States -- Social life and customs
Women bridge players -- United States
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The bridge ladies : a memoir
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The Bridge Ladies A Memoir
The bridge ladies : a memoir / Betsy Lerner
The bridge ladies : a memoir [electronic resource] / Betsy Lerner
The bridge ladies : a memoir / Betsy Lerner
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Electronic books
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Female friendship
Intergenerational relations
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Social aspects
Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Intergenerational relations
Lerner, Betsy
Literary agents
Mothers and daughters
Nonfiction
Older women
Social aspects
Social life and customs
Women bridge players
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