I read this book thinking it would make the ultimate Mother's Day Gift. Here is a book about mothers and daughters and their contributions to and relationships with each other. However, I found it more sad than inspiring, so needless to say, I did not mail it out to my fellow mothers. However, I did learn a lot about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madame Curie and Madam CJ Walker and their daughters. It is full of history, anecdotes and free verse poetry, and left me with the ache that sometimes and in especially in certain periods of history, it was very difficult to be a woman.