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Answer Your Phone, It's Your Mother... The Jewish Daughter Diaries

Join comedian and author Abby Sher for a discussion about the ever-complicated yet loving relationship between Jewish mothers and daughters. Abby is a contributor to the new book The Jewish Daughter Diaries: True Stories of Being Loved Too Much By Our Moms. Rachel Ament, writer and editor of the book will join us by skype.

This hilarious and heartfelt essay collection features writing by some of the most prominent Jewish voices today, including:

The Big Bang Theory and Blossom star Mayim Bialik
The Daily Show producer Jenna Friedman
Last Comic Standing winner Iliza Shlesinger
Cosmopolitan sex and relationships editor Anna Breslaw
Loose Girl author Kerry Cohen

The Jewish Daughter Diaries explores the colorful, complex and, at times, claustrophobic relationship between mothers and daughters. In these 27 searingly funny tales, the collection offers a more multidimensional characterization of Jewish motherhood than the onenote Jewish moms we see and fear on TV.

Whether the essay features an overzealous mom impersonating her daughter on Jdate, a mom who makes half her daughter's bed while her daughter is still sleeping in the other half, or a mom who takes her camphating daughter on a visit to a "summer camp consultant," the book is sure to strike a familiar chord in anyone who has ever been overloved, overprotected, or overmothered.