Mother and Daughter Relationships

Every daughter has horrible tales she can tell about her mother and every mother has war stories to tell on her daughter. This novel takes these stories to another dimension, actually creating a situation where the daughter must walk a day in her mother's shoes.

Annabel, a normal, precocious thirteen-year-old has a fight with her mother. Annabel's mother wants her to keep her room clean, do her studies and turn assignments in on time, make good grades,. Ellen wants to keep Annabel safe and therefore forbids her from walking in Central Park alone. Annabel sees all this as overly protective and cruel. After all, it is her room; she should be allowed to keep it the way she wants. School is boring. Central Park is not so dangerous. All the other kids are allowed to do it. Annabel does not see things from her mother's...