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Mastering mother/daughter dynamics on a fridge door

| February 7, 2008
 Life on the Refrigerator Door

Life on the Refrigerator Door

by Alice Kuipers
( HarperCollins,
2007;
$15.95)

Cathi Bond speaks to Alice Kuipers about her first novel, Life on the Refrigerator Door — an intriguing story about the ongoing relationship between a mother and her daughter, told through a series of Post-It Notes left on a refrigerator.

Claire is a high spirited teenager and her mother is a single parent, who is also a hideously busy obstetrician. There's the normal parent/child push and pull, but things takes a turn when Claire's mother is diagnosed with breast cancer and everything changes.

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