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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir por Betsy Lerner
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir (edición 2016)

por Betsy Lerner (Autor)

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"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast. Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter"--… (más)
Miembro:Jinjer
Título:The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Autores:Betsy Lerner (Autor)
Información:Harper Wave (2016), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages
Colecciones:Tu biblioteca
Valoración:*****
Etiquetas:read

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I picked up this book because I loved to play bridge and I thought it would be interesting to see bridge from the point of view of someone who was trying to learn to play. However, that's not what it turned out to be. Yes, it did sections when the author talked about the difficulty of learning to play, but it mostly centered around the relationships of the "Bridge Ladies", how they came together over the years, and how the game was their release, a time when they could ignore the world and just play a game.

It wasn't anything special and I doubt I would have picked it up if I'd known what it was about at the start. ( )
  cyderry | Apr 5, 2022 |
Any commentary I may make will be found on Litsy. ( )
  Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 |
Rounding it up to 3.5 stars.

This is not just a book about bridge but about 50+ years of friendship, mothers and daughters, the author's growing up and her life. She was never very close with her mother and she wrote this book because she wanted to be closer to her mother (or that's how I perceived it).

I learned a lot about bridge but would never be able to learn it or play it. It's very complicated and like the author said she wasn't good in math and neither was I but she learned to like it somehow and played it with her mother's group occasionally and took lessons.

I liked how not only did she interview the "bridge ladies" but their daughters as well, some who she knew and grew up with and some she just knew by name. I grew to love them as well.

I laughed and cried (with laughter and sorrow) throughout the book. Thank you Betsy Lerner for sharing your life with your mother and her love for bridge and her friends who she played with. ( )
  sweetbabyjane58 | May 18, 2021 |
Author Betsy Lerner records her time learning to play bridge so she can connect with her mother and her friends. She learns things about the women in her life, and she tries to use this knowledge to understand her relationship with her mother.

I read this book for book club. It is not something I would normally pick. There was so much potential for revelations for the author as she learns some of her mother’s history. The hope for some poignant feelings about the ladies was the only reason I kept pushing through to the end.

Sadly there was no great confession or a new bond between mother and daughter. None that I could see or felt.

Since I was able to finish means the writing still flowed for me but as a story, there was nothing interesting here. I have no interest in the people that are written about and the game bridge sounds even harder than I thought. ( )
  lavenderagate | Jun 13, 2019 |
Een babyboomer keert terug van New York naar New Haven, waar ze is opgegroeid, en leert daar open te staan voor de generatie van haar ouders ( )
  huizenga | Jan 10, 2019 |
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"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast. Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter"--

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