The Threadbare Heart is a story about a mother and a daughter torn apart by grief, jealousy and misunderstanding — and the family heirloom that finally brings them together. To celebrate its publication, and in honor of Mother’s Day, I’m running a ―Favorite Fictional Mother & Daughter‖ contest with the fantastic bloggers listed in the box to the right. We want to know which fictional mother-daughter pair made you laugh? Made you cry? Made you cringe? Which pair revealed something true about your own mother-daughter relationships? (And yes, mothers and daughters in film are eligible. Fiction is fiction, right?)
I personally am thrilled about this book and I am so excited to be a part of this incredible contest!
HOW TO ENTER:
On MAY 2, 3 or 4, visit one of the blogs and enter 250 words explaining your favorite fictional mother-daughter pair. These are some of the best blogs about books, literature and life. Have fun exploring them – **but you can only enter on one blog.
ON MOTHER’S DAY , I will post the entry I like best. Each blog’s winners will receive a signed copy of The Threadbare Heart and will be entered in the Grand Prize Giveaway.
On MAY 16, Jenny Nash will choose a Grand Prize winner from all the winning blog entries. (How will I pick? Whichever entry just hits me as being heartfelt and true.) The Grand Prize will be announced on the participating blogs, on my website and on twitter.
WHAT YOU WIN:
The Grand Prize winner will receive a ―Book Club in a Box— ten signed copies of The Threadbare Heart, a call-in from the author, and a delicious rum cake to share with your book-reading friends. (Why rum cake? You’ll have to read the book to understand! I’ve picked out a cake by a baker named Kelli because she started selling rum cakes when she lost her baking buddy to cancer and I loved her story – and I happen to think that good stories are a big part of a good life.) Happy Mother’s Day! Jennie Nash
THE CONTEST BLOG ROLL *Remember you can only enter on one blog!
5 Minutes for Books
Bermudaonion weblog
Beth Fish Reads
Book Club Classics
Booking Mama
Books and Needlepoint
Books Like Breathing
Care’s Online Book Club
Caribou’s Mom
Devourer of Books
Jenn’s Bookshelf
Linus’s Blanket
Lit and Life
Literary Mama
Manic Mommie’s Book Club
Maw Book Blog
Mother Daughter Book Club
My Friend Amy
Book Journey
Peeking Between the Pages
Redlady’s Reading Room
S.Krishna Books
She is Too Fond of Books
The Literate Housewife
Word Lilly
Write It Sideways
Writing Forward
Book Journey 
What a great contest. I have it marked so I can read the entries. It will be really fascinating to see who people pick as their favorite Mother/Daughter pair.
I am interested to hear what you think of House Rules. I haven’t read it and can’t decide if I want to.
Have a great week!
What a nice idea. Don’t think I’ll be able to come up with an entry, but it will be enjoyable reading the entries. Good luck to all the entrants.
I really loved the book “When I Married My Mother” by Jo Maeder!
I could really relate to this book, as my mother is elderly and dealing with many health issues.
I myself am confined to a wheelchair and have been for many years. My mother helped me through a great deal of tough times and now it is my turn to help her.
She needs a heart transplant, but due to her age, she does not qualify for the transplant list. She is also dealing with numerous other health issues including congestive heart failure, lung problems, arthritis and many more.
Some people say that it looks odd for a person in a wheelchair to be helping another person in a wheelchair, but I guess they will have to say whatever they want. We will continue to help each other, as long as we both have the breathe and strength to do so.
Excellent book!
My favorite mother-daughter relationship in book fiction……is strangely one vampire short story that almost made me cry….. that would be Jane Yolen’s story…. ‘MAMA GONE’. Since I’m so devoted to my mother and her to me [ maybe more than I will ever be ] I always think about her as someone who is an image of the Divine.. maybe someone more than ‘divine’ because, inspite of having to be a single mother, rejected by her in-laws just because she wanted to work and not live like a bonded laborer at home like most of the women in India are living today ( under torture and plain force ) ; inspite of being taunted by her friends for a broken relationship and the burden of a new born child ; inspite of being discriminated against … mocked at for what she stood for…. she loved me , her only daughter and loved me with a singular love which no social custom or policy could break. The mother in Jane’s story is also deeply attached to her daughter – to such an extent that after her death, her daughter is shocked to realize that, the mother who could in front of all the hardships facing her [ including the fact that she had vampire blood in her ] could ever do her harm….. HER DAUGHTER ? Yet the story goes on to say that indeed the mother did come back to the daughter’s bedroom window…….but as a living corpse to ruin her, and all the little girl can ask is, ” Mama gone ? ” in utter disbelief. I too can not even believe that my virtuous mother can ever even ‘think’ of doing me any harm. Mandy Jane the daughter in MAMA GONE too ran to the grave of her mother before the village folk could come and mutilate her body ,just to ‘remind’ her ‘mama’ …..that she was not ‘gone’ … not a terror unto mankind, BUT A LOVING MOTHER WHO LOVED HER CHILDREN MORE THAN ANY EARTHLY MAN CAN JUDGE. She reminds her of the songs she sang, the games they played, her loving husband, her tender kiss – in childlike innocence not realizing the danger she was in …at mid-night near a vampire’s grave ….. and indeed, the vampire mother emerges from her grave AND REMEMBERS , takes her daughter in her arms ,now warm and tender, and in the sunlight went to her eternal rest. Mother’s especially my mother may forget everything….. even who they are… but not their children…….that love will never be gone ! Strange people they are, these mothers…. if men are from mars and women from venus…. then I guess mothers are made in heaven. My ma will never be gone….never be gone !