The Sins of the Mother Forgiven ; Critic's Choice

Daily MailAugust 11, 2006

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IT HIT ME LIKE A TON OF BRICKS by Catherine Lloyd Burns (HarperPerennial, Pounds 15.99)

TWENTY or 30 pages into Catherine Lloyd Burns's memoir of her mother, I was dismissing it as yet another of those smart, sassy, female firstperson accounts of growing up wealthy, unloved and dysfunctional in New York.

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The Sins of the Mother Forgiven ; Critic's Choice

Its thematic landscape - emotionally unavailable mother, a smattering of sexual abuse and then on to the almost obligatory scenes of drug use and bulimia - is one that...

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