American Daughter Discovering My Mother

"AMERICAN DAUGHTER both owes much and loses much to the accident that inspired it. Otherwise unremarkable passages in Kendall family history acquire gravity from the always looming death of its matriarch, and yet the author's inability to 'let her be meaninglessly gone' seems to have forced Elizabeth Kendall to conclude that her mother's life had been sacrificed to family long before it was lost by the side of a road. Or is the accident one of projection? 'It was the flood of babies that turned me into a lost soul' (emphasis mine). When Kendall recounts her early years, she consistently reveals herself to be the eldest child who never recovers from the compounded insult of having to share her mother with one and then another sibling."Kendall, Elizabeth is the author of 'American Daughter Discovering My Mother' with ISBN 9780812992106 and ISBN 0812992105.