Conversations with Mom: An Aging Baby Boomer, in Need of an Elder, Writes to Her Dead Mother

A "Letters to a Young Poet" for today.

At the age of sixty, Betsy Robinson craved an elder to advise her about her unemployment, her fears, and her shame. Who better to call on than her dead mother . . . who had once before made her spirit presence known. In this work of fiction, based on an archive of letters, stories, and more, Robinson and her dead mother continue the writing partnership and collaboration that forged their unique friendship.

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From Conversations with Mom:

My dearest idi...