Terms of Endearment is an Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter. Together, they find the courage and humor to live through life's hazards and love each other as never before.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove created two characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere—Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the world turn around her, including her string of devoted suitors. Widowed, Aurora has an infant daughter, Emma, whom she is at first overprotective of. As Emma grows up, their relationship is full of tension and disagreement—not least over Emma's choice of husband, whom Aurora disapproves of. Then, with the devastating discovery that Emma has cancer, Aurora slowly learns to adapt and compromise.