![]() ![]() ![]() She started hanging out on Mondays to see what made them tick, thinking there might be a book in it. Years later, a change of address and a post-surgery period for her mother reintroduced Lerner to the ritual of the Bridge Ladies. Rebellious since adolescence, Lerner left home for the big city and an independent, self-supporting life. Traditional homemakers, the Bridge Ladies are reticent with personal information and personal feelings even among immediate family, which, in Roz’s case, has always driven Lerner nuts. ![]() It ended up as a memoir that-in presenting the group portrait-peels back the curtain on Lerner’s difficult relationship with her mother, a relationship fraught with a lifetime of intergenerational tension and misunderstanding. The Bridge Ladies, Betsy Lerner’s lauded new book, began as a group portrait of five octogenarian women-including Lerner’s mother, Roz-who have been convening weekly in greater New Haven, Connecticut, for more than 50 years to play cards. ![]()
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