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Title details for You Were Always Mom's Favorite by Deborah Tannen - Available

You Were Always Mom's Favorite

Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives

by Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen
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Dr. Deborah Tannen, New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster hits You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing THAT? delivers the last word on sisters.Communications expert Dr. Deborah Tannen turns her witty and wise eye to sisters as she shares insights, anecdotes, and practical solutions to help us understand the special gifts and strains of sister relationships.Sisters can be mirrors in which we see ourselves, yardsticks by which we measure our lives-or everything we can't be, because she got there first. Sisters are inevitably in competition, even as they are fellow travelers on the same road. And how sisters communication-"Sisterspeak"-can be straight talk, close and supportive, or talk that keeps you in your place.In You Were Always Mom's Favorite, Tannen helps sisters everywhere translate "Sisterspeak" to navigate one of the most powerful and precious human relationships.

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  • Release date

    September 15, 2009

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781598879421
      • File size: 249422 KB
      • Duration: 08:39:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sisters--listen up! This book will help you put your finger on why it's your sister, not your brother, you phone for a chat, why sisters often feel dual impulses toward closeness and competition, and the special ways sisters often communicate with and support each other, garnering one of life's great gifts. Drawing on insights from bountiful interviews (as well as her own richly sistered life), Tannen comes across--in her writing and her delivery--as wise, wonderfully informed, but never overly serious--the kind of sister every woman longs for. Her gift for translating her well-researched academic work into everyday communication is fully evidenced here. Tannen is a smoothly informal narrator who spins an easily understood story--as old as families--into something that feels freshly insightful. J.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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