All mothers like their children. Don't they? Cathy O'Neal struggled for most of her life with why her mother didn't like her until she happened upon research and writing by other daughters who also had stories about mothers who didn't like them or weren't there for them physically or emotionally. More reading, time, caring friends and a couple of therapists helped Cathy to make sense of her story as the oldest daughter of Maxine, a small-town child of the Depression with an alcoholic father and a bitter mother of her own.