How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
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Book Overview NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 "With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribi...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025
"With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir's transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won't just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share." --The Washington Post
"This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them." --People
"Molly Jong-Fast's memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating--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 mother's 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 wasn't with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Molly's 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.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 256 | Language: English | Publisher: VIKING | ISBN: 0593656474
FormatHardcover
Pages256
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0593656474
EAN9780593656471
PublisherVIKING
Publication Date2025-06-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.75 Pounds
Length8.5 Inches
Width5.84 Inches
Height1.02 Inches
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