Sometime Daughter

All her life Ruth Tyler has been at war with her mother. Now she finds herself repeating the pattern with her own daughter, Annie. Confined to a nursing home in middle age after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth wants to breach the estrangement that has grown up between her and Annie. But before Ruth can mend this rift, she must better understand how her own life was shaped by a relationship full of conflict and charged with anger.

As she recalls her life, she learns that just as the past can shape the present, the present can redeem the past. Sometime Daughter illuminates the complex, sometimes troubled ties that bind mothers and daughters.

"... complex ... in a manner that reminds me of Carol Shields," Donna Gamache, Prairie Review of Books.

"Stunning debut," Kingston Whig-Standard.

"Dugan's portraits are perceptive ... her descriptions ... vibrant," Herizons.

Second Story Press, ISBN: 1-896764-67-3