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The Tiffany Box, a memoir
AWARD-WINNING FINALIST
INTERNATIONAL BEST BOOK AWARDS
Through treasured emails, letters and diary entries, Kathleen Buckstaff recreates her life as a mother of young children. We follow her as she gets her first big break writing for the Los Angeles Times about her children, her husband and their dog, Rosie. Kathleen’s stories hit home with many readers and the Los Angeles Times offers her a sweet deal to pen more columns. Writing with a rare and honest voice, Kathleen shares moments such as trying on foam bellies in a maternity dressing room, her children tricking the tooth fairy and using chocolate to bribe her mother to babysit. Then, unexpectedly, her vibrant mother becomes ill, and Kathleen must learn how to be a mother to her own mom.
Kathleen shows the humor, hard work, insanity, love and joy that are involved in being a mother and a caretaker. This is a book full of wisdom and insight into how to live life well.
The Tiffany Box was originally a one-woman show and Kathleen performed the play to sold-out theaters in San Francisco, Phoenix and NYC.
TESTIMONIALS
“Kathleen Buckstaff has a big heart and a truth-telling spirit. She spins an intergenerational story about grandparents, parents and children who are glued together by generosity and love. Her book will sweep you to the center of her family’s joys and tragedies. . . . The Tiffany Box is just plain wonderful.”
“Embracing both her vulnerability and strength, Kathleen Buckstaff reaches into the soul and opens a precious door that brings to life her grandmother’s truth, “You’ve got to touch to love.” In sharing that truth, Kathleen and The Tiffany Box teach us an ultimate truth, “There was so much pain, because there was so much love.” Elegant. Beautiful. Compelling.”
NOTEWORTHY BOOK, WOMEN MAGAZINE: “The Tiffany Box, offers a glimpse into the common and bittersweet experience of balancing motherhood with the passing of one’s own parent—that time when new life and young life converge with the end of life, accompanied by all the intensity, heartbreak, and joy those events entail. . . .an intimate portrait of family life saturated in love and loss.”
IN THE MEDIA
YouTube Performance
The Tiffany Box
