Praise for Mothers, Daughters
"Mothers, Daughters is a wonderfully
perceptive eyewitness account of some of the odd things that are
now happening on the West Coast to love and sex, marriage and
divorce, and the relations between parents and children. It is
marvelously comic, but also terrifying - since, as we know, whatever
people do in California today, they will probably do in the rest
of America tomorrow, and all over the world the following day."
- Alison Lurie
"I really enjoyed Mothers, Daughters
- which also has a lot to say about friends, lovers. It is totally
interesting, absolutely real.
- Alice Adams
"In Mothers, Daughters, Carolyn
See captures all the tacky charm of that [Los Angeles] world and
all the diversions it offers, and does it well. ...What distinguishes
this novel from many another look at the California landscape
is the writer's ability to catch the panic of the survivors and
more than that to go on to ask the questions that have to do with
debts, self-respect, responsibility - to one's self and to one's
children." - Chicago Tribune
"Mothers, Daughters presents the
most vivid picture of nothingness, California-style, since Play
it as it Lays." - Washington Post
"Carolyn See draws the life of Southern
California - the cars, the television, the rock stars, the canyon
romances - with a scaringly insightful pen." - San Francisco
Chronicle
"A compulsively readable novel about marriage
and divorce, parents and children in Southern California ... carried
off in a nicely ironic tone both moving and chilling." -
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A frighteningly realistic portrait of
contemporary family relationships." - Publishers Weekly
