The Bridge Ladies, Betsy Lerner
The Bridge Ladies, Betsy Lerner
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The Bridge Ladies
A Memoir

Author: Betsy Lerner

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life.After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn’t deliver a pot roast.Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother’s Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had.By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won—but never-too-late—bond between mother and daughter.

About Betsy Lerner

BETSY LERNER is the author of the popular advice book to writers, The Forest for the Trees, and the memoirs Food and Loathing and The Bridge Ladies. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry. A publishing professional for over thirty years, Lerner is a literary agent in New York. Shred Sisters is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on April 18, 2016

4.5 stars Betsy Lerner started out writing a tale about the five Jewish women who made up her mother’s decades-long bridge club group. For three years, she observed their bridge club, interviewed each woman and her children, and set about learning to play bridge to further understand these women. Whe......more

Goodreads review by DJ on May 05, 2016

My Rating: 4.5 Favorite Quotes: “Yes, my mother has told me about Eugene Genovese a hundred times, the Italian boy she had a huge crush on. It's her West Side Story without the snapping.” “The recipe looks like a panel from the Dead Sea Scrolls: stained many times over with fish grease, darkened with ag......more

Goodreads review by SundayAtDusk on April 28, 2016

The story of the bridge ladies probably could have been a better book, if someone else had written it. Someone more objective, someone who didn’t feel the need to talk so much about her own life and her own generation. Thus, don’t think for a minute this is strictly a book about a group of elderly J......more