White Dresses Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Mary Pflum Peterson
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
150

White Dresses by Mary Pflum Peterson Book Summary

In this riveting, poignant memoir of  three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.

As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America, Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized producer. It’s a persona at odds with her tortured childhood, where she watched her emotionally vulnerable mother fill their house with teetering piles of assorted “treasures.” But one thing has always united mother and daughter—their love of white dresses. From the dress worn by Mary’s mother when she became a nun and married Jesus, to the wedding gown she donned years later, to the special nightshirts she gifted Mary after the birth of her children, to graduation dresses and christening gowns, these white dresses embodied hope and new beginnings.

After her mother’s sudden death in 2010, Mary digs deep to understand the events that led to Anne’s unraveling. At twenty-one, Anne entered a convent, committed to a life of prayer and helping others. But lengthy periods of enforced fasting, isolation from her beloved students, and constant humiliation eventually drove her to flee the convent almost a decade later. Hoping to find new purpose as a wife and mother, Anne instead married an abusive, closeted gay man—their eventual divorce another sign of her failure.

Anne retreats into chaos. By the time Mary is ten, their house is cluttered with broken appliances and stacks of unopened mail. Anne promises but fails to clean up for Mary’s high school graduation party, where Mary is being honored as her school’s valedictorian, causing her perfectionist daughter’s fear and shame to grow in tandem with the heaps upon heaps of junk. In spite of everything, their bond endures. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives are celebrated, even as Mary tries in vain to save Anne from herself. 

Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story—and a reminder of the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. 

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Book Name White Dresses
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
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Language English
E-Book Size 2.17 MB

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White Dresses. I loved this book. It was written with such humanity and love that I was enthralled while reading it and had to dry my tears from time to time. I was captivated for all of its 600 plus pages. I would recommend it highly.

Mental illness breeds superficiality. I found it hard to empathize with the author. Both of her parents were clearly mentally ill. In her mother’s case, the author persists on blaming her mother’s mental problems on her mother’s mother. But that continually falls short through out the book. The author herself never really explains why she turns out, as an adult, so superficial. Really. She explodes because the honey her lover bought spilled over her “RED DRESS?” Please....

White Dresses. What a wonderful story of the complex relationship between a mother and her daughter. I so enjoyed the journey and felt like crying when it ended.

White Dresses. Outstanding! This story is about real people living ordinary yet extraordinarily lives as they struggle with the choice to love and exhibit unshakable faith in the midst of imperfect circumstances and imperfect relationships. Mary Pflum Peterson’s book chronicles both her and her Mother’s story intertwined through the hope and expectations symbolized in the “white garments” they owned, treasured and preserved. It is beautifully written, hard to put down and has a lingering emotional impact. Mary’s mother through her tragedies and triumphs has become one of my unlikely American heroes. Thank you Mary for daring to share this difficult and tender story. Well done.

White Dresses. A good read. White Dresses. I finished reading the book last night. I bought the book because the author grew up in my home town, Beaver Dam Wisconsin. I continued reading the book because it was a story of family, the good, the bad and the ugly. Yet through all love prevailed. I laughed, I cried and I learned.

Brutally honest and heartfelt. This book details the life of the author’s relationship with her mom and her Moms story of growing up. I feel like it helped me understand people with depression in a new way and I admire the love they shared despite the challenges they faced. Courageous and brave this woman attempted her very best to raise her children while battling a mental illness and it was beautifully written. I literally read this in one night because I couldn’t put it down. Fabulous!!

Excellent reading. One of the best books I've read in a long time. She gives insight into hoarding and the true complicated mental health issues that are part of its makeup.

White Dresses very readable memoir. The author recounts parts of her life while reflecting on her mothers influence on her and her mothers influence on her, in turn. Honest and open, I still think that more background would have been available regarding the authors mothers upbringing.

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The White Dresses book written by Mary Pflum Peterson was published on 15 September 2015, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 150 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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