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Jump to full article: New York Times, 2008-05-04
Author: JENNIFER GILMORE
Intro: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
A Memoir.
By Alyse Myers.
250 pp. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. $24.
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Myers, who is vice president for brand programs at The New York Times, grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Queens during the 1960s and ’70s, the eldest of three girls who shared a bedroom in an apartment so claustrophobic the changing world outside barely registered. Her mother’s constant smoking was as inescapable as the terrible rows her parents engaged in, unaware or uncaring of the traumatizing effects on their daughters.
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It’s only when she has a daughter of her own that Myers begins to understand and respect her mother’s efforts to survive. And when her mother is dying of lung cancer, Myers begins to recognize her own lack of compassion.
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