Too close for comfort

A fascinating look at how mothers and their adult daughters have formed a greater friendship than generations past—and whether or not their should be boundaries.No relationship is more complicated than the one between mothers and daughters—especially today, when a cultural shift can cause a longer period of time of overlapping interests before the traditional adult markers of marriage and family. As a result, these young women are developing deeper bonds with their own mothers, a relationship that sometimes mimics friendship. But are these close bonds healthy? Is it time to cut the umbilical cord?In this eye-opening book, Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer explore the modern mother-daughter relationship in all its glorious complexity. Combining a brilliant sociological analysis with fascinating stories of real-life women, Too Close for Comfort? provides a rich, provocative look at the ways mothers and daughters get it right, how they get it...