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How to Lose Your Mother
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir | Molly Jong-Fast
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Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life. Anne Lamott From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mothers encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood Molly 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 motherdaughter 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.
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ChrisBohjalian
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Yes, I loved this memoir.

TheBookHippie 5 stars from me! 3w
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Lesliereadsalot
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I‘m really torn about what to say about this memoir written by the daughter of Erica Jong, famous of course for writing Fear of Flying in 1973. As her mother descends into dementia in her 70s, daughter Molly tries to analyze both of their lives, her childhood, her need for her mother to actually see her. I‘m not particularly interested in Erica Jong but I understand that her daughter needed to get this stuff out, and thus this book. ⬇️

Lesliereadsalot I could relate to the parts about her mother having dementia, although my mother and mother-in-law were in their 90s. But I found this to be an extremely self-indulgent read. She wants us to know what her life has been like, how she could never get her mother‘s attention. It was hard to care about these people. A soft pick. 3w
Cathythoughts Great review , It sounds a bit ‘ me me me ‘ …. I think I‘ll pass on this one 👍🏻😁 3w
Lesliereadsalot @Cathythoughts “me me me” would be an understatement! 😂 3w
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TheBookHippie I think if you grew up in an abusive home or with a narcissist it‘s good these books are out there so you don‘t feel alone. I‘m so glad she wrote this. So many people will feel seen reading this. 3w
Lesliereadsalot @TheBookHippie That‘s a very good point. While I was reading it, I realized how many people from all walks of life, do not have the childhood that I had, 2 loving parents, lots of attention. This book will resonate with lots of people. 3w
BarbaraBB Hmmm. I am in no hurry to read this one. 3w
Lesliereadsalot @BarbaraBB I know that 🩷 3w
BarbaraBB Although I used to love her mother‘s books in my teens 😇 3w
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