Mother, Can You Not?

Happy birthday, spawn. Welcome to the wrong side of twenty-five. The expiration date on your eggs is officially in sight. Tick tock. Love, Mom''

This was the text message Kate Friedman woke up to on the morning of her twenty-sixth birthday, but her mother''s maternal adoration and helicopter parenting began while Kate was still in utero. Never shy about pushing her only daughter to study harder, to...