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Travels with my Daughter (Paperback)
by Niema Ash (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Eye Books Direct (1 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190307004X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903070048
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 620,558 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"You could say I had an unconventional upbringing. At the age of four I was sharing my bedroom with Bob Dylan, and by the time I was fifteen I had been taken out of school to go travelling and was smoking joints with my mother". Some may be shocked at the adventures mother and daughter share, but everyone will admire Niema's celebration of travel, motherhood and life itself, as this honest and often humorous account describes how she copes with: The overwhelming desire to travel which conflicts with the responsibilities of motherhood. Finding the confidence to believe in herself and her instincts. Being a single mum in the sixties while mixing with some of the most talented poets and musicians of our time, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Seamus Heaney and Joni Mitchell. And above all, developing a unique mother and daughter bond which many only dream about. This book will touch a hidden nerve in everyone who reads it as it turns a world of convention and protocol upside-down!

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing follow up to 'Touching Tibet', 13 Nov 2001
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'Travels With My Daughter' would be better titled 'Memoirs of Neima Ash'. The pretence of this book is a summer in the 1970's that Ash, her daughter Ronit and a group of friends spent travelling through Morocco. However the book is mainly a loose collection of tales from Ash's earlier life, very few of which involved her daughter, and which serve only to reinforce the overstated point that Ash spent the 1960's and 70's mixing in literary and musical circles. Having known Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen become a recurring theme throughout.

Ash's stated aim of the book is to explore her relationship with Ronit and how travelling strengthened this. Ash never pretends to have been a conventional mother and from the start it is hard not to be shocked by some of her mothering techniques such as taking a baby Ronit to a party in a cardboard box, only to loose the box. A refusal to get up before midday leads to an inventive way of providing food and entertainment to a baby.

Ash tries to convince the reader these techniques were all part of her desire not to be bound by the rigours of traditional motherhood, but as the book progresses it becomes increasingly clear that she has never matured enough to extend her circle of self absorption to include her daughter. Ash doesn't realise that her refusal to adapt her lifestyle stops being trendy and starts to look like pure selfishness.

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