Background
Klass, Sheila Solomon was born on November 6, 1927 in New York City. Daughter of Abraham Louis and Regina (Glatter) Solomon.
(Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the...)
Mothers and daughters go through so much–yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down collectively to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal collaborators as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful, if sometimes fraught, ways their lives have overlapped. Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirrored her mother’s: Both have full-time careers (Perri is a pediatrician; Sheila is recently retired from a long career as a college English professor but goes on teaching); both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read, and to pass books back and forth. They also love to travel–in fact, they often take trips together (and live to tell the tale). But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more Perri and Sheila acknowledge their profound differences in circumstance and temperament. A child of the Depression, Sheila was raised in Brooklyn by Orthodox Jewish parents who considered education an unnecessary luxury for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she’s ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up privileged and rebellious in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, fanatically frugal, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at enticing her mother into even the tiniest self-indulgence. Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila take turns exploring the joys and pains, the love and resentment, the petty irritations and abiding respect, that have always bound them together. Sheila recounts the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing anthropological fieldwork. Perri confesses that she can’t tame her domestic chaos even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Sheila rhapsodizes about the bliss of becoming a grandmother. Perri marvels at her mother’s fearless navigation of the New York City subways. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, confess long-hidden sorrows, relish precious memories–and even offer family recipes and knitting patterns. Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, zest, and mutual admiration. A memoir in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that resonates with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize.
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Read by Anna Field and Carrington MacDuffie Oh no, I'm turning into my mother! Every woman is familiar with the poignant, funny, baffling, or horrifying echoes that resonate at that moment when she first hears her own mother's voice coming out of her mouth. But this moment of recognition is more than ironic: it's at the root of how we see ourselves, and how we plot and follow the arc that goes from childhood to motherhood. - - Together, Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, cover more than seven decades of daughterhood and motherhood. And although they grew up in dramatically different circumstances, they find that their lives have been shaped in strangely similar ways. In ''Every Mother is a Daughter'', Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, with different perspectives, unique voices, and powerful insight, in the first co-written mother-daughter memoir.
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(in 1950, Eva and Sol Greenfield receive a telegram from t...)
in 1950, Eva and Sol Greenfield receive a telegram from the Department of the Army informing then that their son, Ben, in missing in action in Korea. The effect of the telegram is devastating. Eva, an orthodox Jewish woman, goes to a fortune teller in Coney Island for comfort. "In A Cold Open Field" explores the developing relationship between the two women, as Eva desperately needs to deny the death of her child and the fortune teller takes advantage of Eva's need for her own gain. "In A Cold Open Field" was a finalist for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. "Library Journal" said about this book: "Klass's evocation of Brooklyn in the Fifties in wonderfully effective..."
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(Recounts the efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to est...)
Recounts the efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843, as seen through the eyes of the shy eleven-year-old girl next door.
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(Adjusting to a new life in the country with her sculptor ...)
Adjusting to a new life in the country with her sculptor father after living the high life with her jet-setting mother, a young girl deals with the difficulties of being a ""pawn"" between divorced parents.
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(When Ada, a tough, street-fighting transplant from coal m...)
When Ada, a tough, street-fighting transplant from coal mining country to the Chicago slums, gets the no-nonsense Ms. Walker as a teacher, she learns that there are other ways to stand up for yourself.
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writer English language educator
Klass, Sheila Solomon was born on November 6, 1927 in New York City. Daughter of Abraham Louis and Regina (Glatter) Solomon.
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1949. Master of Arts, State University Iowa, 1951. Master of Fine Arts, State University Iowa, 1953.
English teacher Julia Ward Howe Junior High School, New York City, 1951-1957. Professor English, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, 1965-2000. Professor writer, since 1950.
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(Read by Anna Field and Carrington MacDuffie Oh no, I'm ...)
(Adjusting to a new life in the country with her sculptor ...)
(Recounts the efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to est...)
(in 1950, Eva and Sol Greenfield receive a telegram from t...)
(When Ada, a tough, street-fighting transplant from coal m...)
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Member Learning Leaders Volunteer Program, New York City, since 1990. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Morton Klass, May 2, 1953. Children: Perri, David, Judy.