How to Manage Your Mother: Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated, and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life

Guilt. Affection. Embarrassment. Friendship. Anger. Love.

Who can bring out all these feelings...and often in the same day?

Your mother.

No matter how mature or successful we are in our adult lives, with one word our mothers can somehow send us scurrying back to childhood. Can mothers and adult children ever learn to set aside their earlier relationship and talk to each other as adults?

In this warm, funny book, dozens of revealing stories from such well-known personal…