“There isn't a woman alive who won't be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story. Like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, Gail’s story will help women gain insight and wisdom that will not only help heal their relationships with their mothers, but could, quite frankly, help save their lives! Bless you, Gail, for doing work that heals all of us.”

—From the Foreword by Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
and Mother-Daughter Wisdom

“Unraveling the narrative of motherhood in all its forms, Returning to My Mother’s House is a book of enormous transformation, intimacy, and heart.”

—Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, and author of
The Vagina Monologues and Insecure at Last

“Returning to My Mother’s House is Gail Straub’s poetic, heartfelt, and very personal journey story, but it is also my story, your story, and the story of a culture in desperate need of ‘taking back the wisdom of the feminine.’ I came away from the adventure of reading this book full of hope for the restoration of the feminine in each of us, and our world.”

— Elizabeth Lesser, Co-founder, Omega Institute,
and author of Broken Open and The Seekers Guide

2009 Nautilus Silver Award Winner
in the Category of Memoir

Winner of the National Best Books
2008 Award in the Category of
Women's Issues

Finalist ForeWord Magazine's 2008
Book Of the Year in the Category of
Family and Relationships

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