
The Bridge Ladies
A Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Orlagh Cassidy
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By:
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Betsy Lerner
A 50-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 gets instead are the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she sees something her generation lacks. Facebook is great, but it won'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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The reader, however, used an accent in order to be somewhat denigrating to the primary characters. She also mispronounced many words in the reading, some Yiddish, some English. Such things are too easy to research to shrug off.
Books need editors, readers do as well.
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I am the same age as the author, child of Jewish Bridge players. So this book resonated! And her writing is lovely!How could the performance have been better?
The narrator mangled more than the Yiddish - she mangled some English, too! Nonagenerian and Anathema not pronounced right? Yikes!I Related to this Story
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If you play bridge, read it
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