I tried to like this book but couldnt connect to it. The title and the underlying dynamic is catchy. This book had travel in it. So I jumped in to read. The dialogues with the Tanner family make the whole scene vivid. Imagine a Marsupial Encyclopaedia and you know where you are. The author has an arsenal of writing skills but the bull's eye kept changing with the back and forth with mom and present. I enjoy reading essays about mothers and daughters. I have enjoyed memoirs like 'The Florist's Daughter' by Patricia Hampl. I was looking for that rich texture in the mother-daughter experience landscape which I found lacking in the book.
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