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How to lose your mother : a daughter's memoir / Molly Jong-Fast.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593656471 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 242 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Jong-Fast, Molly, 1978- > Family. Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography. Podcasters > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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- B & T Entertainment
A darkly funny and deeply honest memoir exploring a daughterâs complex relationship with her famous, elusive mother, the impact of dementia, blending humor, heart and raw reflection on loss, family and identity. - Baker & Taylor
A darkly funny and deeply honest memoir exploring a daughter's complex relationship with her famous, elusive mother, the impact of dementia, blending humor, heart and raw reflection on loss, family and identity. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Penguin Putnam
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
âWith propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoirâs transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you wonât just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share.â âThe Washington Post
âThis raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them.â âPeople
âMolly Jong-Fastâs memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminatingâbeautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.â âAnne Lamott
From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive motherâs 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 wasnât with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Mollyâs 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 motherâdaughter 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.
