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	<title>Marni Jackson</title>
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	<description>author of The Mother Zone and Home Free</description>
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		<title>Speaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m giving a talk  on Monday, Jan. 17th, at the Toronto Reference Library, Yonge &#38; Bloor. It&#8217;s part of their lecture series, Thought Exchange, and I&#8217;ll be exploring some of the themes in my most recent book, Home Free, about what the boomers have wrought in the current culture of family. l &#8211; 3 p.m., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>book launch</title>
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		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/10/book-launch/</link>
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		<title>Leonard Cohen &#8211; from Zoomer Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ON THE RE-RELEASE OF THE CLASSIC 1972 DOC, AND THE CULMINATION OF HIS LATEST WORLD TOUR BIRD ON A WIRE, MARNI JACKSON CONFESSES TO OUR SECRET LIVES WITH LEONARD. Leonard Cohen was in Hamilton at the beginning of his two-yearlong sold-out world tour, when my phone rang close to midnight. “I’ll be late getting home,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/10/leonard-cohen-from-zoomer-magazine/</link>
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		<title>National Post Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For parents, the nest is never truly empty. By Robert Fulford September 25, 2010 On Feb. 1, 1988, that always reliable trend-spotter, New York magazine, carried unsettling news on its cover: “Back to the Nest: Grown-up Children Who Move Back.” The article opened with a woman whose mid-20s daughter, running short on money, wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/10/national-post-article/</link>
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		<title>Review from the Globe and Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Review, Mon., Oct. 4 A meaty read from the sandwich generation Reviewed by Tom Sandborn “Old age,” observed Bette Davis, “is not for sissies.” Consider the boomers. Possessors of the most towering generational hubris the world has seen, our cohort has always been tempted to see its experience and enthusiasms as uniquely momentous. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/10/review-from-the-globe-and-mail/</link>
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		<title>Bio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Canada&#8217;s most respected nonfiction writers, Marni writes about a broad range of subjects, including family, motherhood, medical education, pain studies, the literary world, and wilderness expeditions. Her books combine novelistic narrative elements with cultural analysis, and she is best known for her stylish and darkly comic family memoirs, The Mother Zone and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/09/bio-2/</link>
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		<title>Home Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone, comes a candid narrative about an over-anxious mother and her twenty-something over-adventurous son. Home Free is about the last secret lap of parenting: getting through your kids&#8221; twenties and learning how to let them go at the same time. The twentysomethings who invented the generation gap in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/07/home-free/</link>
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		<title>Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A compulsively readable explorer&#8217;s journal of the hidden territory of pain, as profound and insightful as the work of Oliver Sacks and Sherwin Nuland. A bee sting on the lips was the tiny lance that set Marni Jackson off on a four-year exploration of the many ways in which we suffer. Exiled for an afternoon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/07/pain-the-fifth-vital-sign/</link>
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		<title>The Mother Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA["A bouquet of empirical opinions and reminiscences of about all the many small moments that make up the mothering process." 
Sunday Globe

"Humourous, frank and passionate… Entertaining and gutsy, her account will warn and console parents." 
Publishers Weekly

"A wonderful memoir of what motherhood is really like…fun to read, eye-opening, humourous and exasperating." 
Library Journal

“[A]n exuberant, generous-hearted book about the experience of motherhood and the impact of that experience on her life and work … The writing is intelligent, reflective and touchingly brave ... Jackson possesses a novelist’s eye and ear.” 
Carol Shields, The Globe and Mail

“An intimate look at an evolving relationship and a startlingly honest self-portrait of an intelligent woman growing older and wiser....Jackson makes a major contribution towards restoring the dignity that mothering children deserves.”
Maclean's
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		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/07/the-mother-zone/</link>
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		<link>http://marnijackson.com/2010/07/photos/</link>
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