{"id":5768,"date":"2019-10-11T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2019-10-12T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:30:46","slug":"nanaville-adventures-in-grandparenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/10\/nanaville-adventures-in-grandparenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anna Quindlen-Random House<\/i>, <\/i>2019<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen is well known to those of us in midlife and older. Her latest book, <\/span>Nanaville<\/span><\/i>, is written in her typical feels-like-we\u2019re-sharing-coffee style. Quindlen expounds on the joy of becoming a grandmother. <\/span>Nanaville<\/span><\/i> is more than a saccharine ode to her son\u2019s baby, however. Quindlen reveals the lessons she\u2019s learned<\/span>: that<\/span> she is not the decision-maker<\/span>, <\/span>and that the techniques she used to raise her own children may not be acceptable today. She discusses blending and honoring customs of different cultures (her son\u2019s wife is Asian). She candidly admits she knows how to parent but had to learn how to help her son parent\u2014often by saying nothing at all. As much as we delight in the love affair between grandmother and grandson, the book serves equal purpose as grandparenting (or mother-in-lawing) for dummies. It\u2019s a terrific read for any future nana, so full of Quindlen<\/span> quotes, you\u2019ll want to read it with a highlighter. And if you like this one, we also recommend <\/span>Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake<\/span><\/i> (2013) and <\/span>One True Thing<\/span><\/i>, a film based on Quindlen\u2019s semi-autobiographical novel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen is well known to those of us in midlife and older. Her latest book, <\/span>Nanaville<\/span><\/i>, is written in her typical feels-like-we\u2019re-sharing-coffee style. <\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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