her grown daughter’s bed. Cheever’s mantra in this book is that once she became a parent, she had to grow up. Apparently, it was to ensure her daughter wouldn’t have to.
But has Cheever grown up? She seems bewildered that her stepdaughter holds against her the affair Cheever had with her father, which resulted in the breakup of the young girl’s family. “This seemed unfair . . . I hadn’t exactly invented adultery . . .’’ No wonder her advice for raising “wonderful children” sounds like a recipe for creating narcissists.
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