White Dresses

An Emmy award–winning tv producer offers “a candid, moving memoir” about growing up with a mother battling mental illness ( Kirkus Reviews ). As a journalist at Good Morning America, Mary Pflum Peterson’s successful life was at odds with her childhood, where she watched her emotionally vulnerable mother, Anne, unravel before her eyes. But their love of white dresses always united them—from their baptism dresses to their wedding gowns, white dresses embodied hope and new beginnings. After he