Description: Twenty-five of today's top women writers offer honest and straightforward perspectives on the complex role that is grandmotherhood, in this collection of touching, funny, painful, and true stories.
Brief description:
Barbara Graham is an essayist, playwright, and author who has written for Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; More; National Geographic Traveler; and Vogue. She is a columnist for Grandparents.com and has two granddaughters.
Review Quotes:
"As someone who was partly raised by my maternal grandparents and adored them, I always knew that grandmotherhood would be intense for me. But I didn't realize that it would be such a revelation. Eye of My Heart really does what its subtitle suggests--reveals the pleasures and perils of grandmotherhood." - Erica Jong, author of Fear of Fifty
"As many of us become the elders of our various tribes, we need stories to help us understand what is happening to us, to feel accompanied in our new roles, corroborated in our feelings and quandaries, connected with others with whom we now form that windbreaker circle of protection and nurture for those younger than us." - Julia Alvarez, author of Return to Sender and Once Upon a Quinceañera
"Illuminating." - People
"This collection will ring true to the grandmother who is tuned in to her own mixed emotions. . . . This is not a sugary mess. Many of the story edges are hard, even jagged, though all are washed over with wonder." - Kandra Hahn, Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)
"So many different perspectives and vantage points are woven seamlessly that no matter what their personal relationship to the word 'grandmother' is, readers will find much to make them laugh out loud--and also to break their hearts." - Christian Science Monitor
"Truthful and anything but sugar-coated." - More magazine (Canada)
"In illuminating, unsentimental essays, 27 writers offer up insights on the tricky art of grandmothering." - People
"Spry and unsentimental. . . . Truth telling with dollops of love." - O magazine
"Insightful and candid, sometimes painfully so. . . . Women who have achieved grandmotherly status will appreciate this engaging, honest volume of essays by 26 writers who articulate shared emotions about their grandchildren." - Publishers Weekly
"These stories are so fresh and fundamental, wrenching and joyful, that one is left feeling that the subject has never been cracked open before." - Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger