{"product_id":"9780425229606","title":"Too Close for Comfort?: Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eToo Close for Comfort?\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rich, provocative look at the ways mothers and daughters get it right, how they get it wrong?and how they can happily maintain being friends as well as mothers and daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021673316592,"sku":"9780425229606","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780425229606_p0.jpg?v=1763700947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780425229606","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}