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As Ms. Hafner chronicles in her new memoir, "Mother Daughter Me" (Random House, $26), her experiment in mother-daughter-granddaughter bonding goes south even before the fridge is stocked.
The experiment was based on a granddaughter design, including five Large White and three French Landrace half-sib families identified in the French porcine national database.
In AMONG THE BOHEMIANS: Experiments in Living, 1900-1939 (Perennial/HarperCollins, $14.95), Virginia Nicholson, the granddaughter of Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf, explores the pioneers of British bohemia (Dylan Thomas, Augustus John) who challenged artistic, sexual and domestic conventions.
At first glance, Hafner's memoir reads like the book it purports to be: an account of a yearlong experiment in multigenerational living in which a grandmother (Helen), a daughter (Hafner) and a teenage granddaughter (Zoë) reside under one roof.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
"That's my granddaughter.
My granddaughter is 5.
Mandela's granddaughter, Nandi Mandela.
Love Yvette, children and granddaughter.
"Because I love my granddaughter".
Granddaughter of old Medicine Dress.
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