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“Truth telling with dollops of love.”
— O Magazine

“So many different perspectives and vantage points are woven seamlessly that no matter what their personal relationship to the word ‘grandmother’ is, readers will find much to make them laugh out loud—and also to break their hearts.”
— Christian Science Monitor

“In illuminating, unsentimental essays, 27 writers offer up insights on the tricky art of grandmothering.”
— People

“Finally, a look at grandmothering that is decidedly unsentimental. These essays offer humor and insight as they take on the multigenerational lives many of us now lead.”
— Cokie Roberts, author of We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters

“Insightful and candid, sometimes painfully so. . . . Women who have achieved grandmotherly status will appreciate this engaging, honest volume of essays by . . . writers who articulate shared emotions about their grandchildren.”
— Publishers Weekly

“These stories are so fresh and fundamental, wrenching and joyful, that one is left feeling that the subject has never been cracked open before.” — Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger “Truthful and anything but sugar-coated.” — More Magazine (Canada)
“This collection will ring true to the grandmother who is tuned in to her own mixed emotions. . . . This is not a sugary mess. Many of the story edges are hard, even jagged, though all are washed over with wonder.”
— Lincoln Journal Star (Nebraska)

“As many of us become the elders of our various tribes, we need stories to help us understand what is happening to us, to feel accompanied in our new roles, corroborated in our feelings and quandaries, connected with others
with whom we now form that windbreaker circle of protection and nurture for those younger than us.”
— Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

“Realistic and gutsy, these essays offer encouragement and instruction to those of us who have stepped into new roles as elders. They are as rich with laughter as with sobering insights about the way we live now.”
— Literary Mama.com

“As someone who was partly raised by my maternal grandparents and adored them, I always knew that grandmotherhood would be intense for me. But I didn’t realize that it would be such a revelation. Eye of My Heart really does what its subtitle suggests—reveals the pleasures and perils of grandmotherhood.”
— Erica Jong, author of Fear of Fifty