That Special Mother-Daughter Bond

Since Liz's adolescence, when viewing television commercials that celebrated the ostensibly unconditional love of mothers for their children, or on spotting merchandise in stores that honored this unique bond with poems or effusive declarations—picture frames, magnets, oven mitts—she had felt liek a foreign exchange student observing the customs of another country.

Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible (New York: Random House, 2016), p. 155