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Jane Isay has been an editor for over forty years. She discovered Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, commissioned Patricia O'Connor's bestselling Woe Is I and Rachel Simmons' Odd Girl Out, and edited such nonfiction classics as Praying for Sheetrock and Friday Night Lights. She lives in New York City, not too far from her grown children and grandchild.
Introduction | p. vii |
Happy Families Don't All Look Alike | |
Where Have All Our Children Gone? | p. 3 |
Hiding in Plain Sight | p. 31 |
One Size Doesn't Fit All | p. 58 |
Big Children, Big Problems | |
Whose Life Is It, Anyway? | p. 85 |
In-Laws, Stepparents, and Other Aliens | p. 106 |
It's a Girl! | p. 131 |
The Root of All Evil | p. 158 |
The Family Connection | |
Home for the Holidays | p. 187 |
The Song of Love | p. 209 |
Epilogue: A Hole in My Heart | p. 228 |
Acknowledgments | p. 238 |
Readers' Guide | p. 240 |
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