How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

ISBN: 0593656490

Author: Jong-Fast, Molly

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoirs transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you wont just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share. -The Washington PostThis raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them. -PeopleMolly Jong-Fasts memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating-beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life. -Anne LamottFrom the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mothers encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhoodMolly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be heading somewhere that wasnt with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Mollys husband discovered he had a rare cancer, Jong-Fast was catapulted into a transformative year.How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother-daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our hard-won adulthood. A pitch-perfect balance of acceptance and rage, humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story of loss alongside a singular story of a literary life. This is a memoir that will stand alongside the classics of the genre.