About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and

About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

A Message from Mike Rowe, theÂ Dirty JobsÂ Guy:Â Just to be clear,Â About My MotherÂ is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. Thatâ€™s not to say itâ€™s not about my motherâ€”it is. In fact,Â About My MotherÂ is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, itâ€™s really a book about â€œmothers.â€

â€¦It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesnâ€™t mean Iâ€™ve written a book about my mother. I havenâ€™t. Nor does it mean my motherâ€™s book is about her son. It isnâ€™t. Itâ€™s about my grandmother. And my mother. Just to be clear.â€”MikeÂ

A love letter to mothers everywhere,Â About My MotherÂ will make you laugh and cryâ€”and see yourself in its reflection. Peggy Roweâ€™s story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But Thelma could beÂ yourÂ motherâ€”thereâ€™s a Thelma inÂ everyoneâ€™sÂ life.Â Sheâ€™s the person taking chargeâ€”the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Today, Thelma would be described as an alpha personality, but while growing up, her daughter Peggy saw her as a dictatorâ€”albeit a benevolent, loving one. They clashed from the beginningâ€”Peggy, the horse-crazy tomboy, and Thelma, the genteel-yet-still-controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters. Good luck.

When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy. Life became a series of compromisesâ€”Thelma tolerating a daughter who pitched manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the television, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange-and-black schedule taped to the refrigerator door.Â

Sometimes it takes a littleÂ distanceÂ to appreciate the people we love.
Country USA
Brand Forefront Books
Manufacturer Forefront Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber YES64597205
ReleaseDate 2018-11-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781948677165

Country	USA
Brand	Forefront Books
Manufacturer	Forefront Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	YES64597205
ReleaseDate	2018-11-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781948677165

About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

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