How To Lose Your Mother (a Daughter's Memoir)

By (author) Jong-Fast Molly
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An honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had – and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had - and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated.

''I was just bowled over by this book'' - Nigella Lawson

‘Often rancorous, sometimes furious, never self-indulgent’ - Financial Times

''Brisk and funny and beautifully done'' - The Times

''Unsparing . . . but also a loving elegy'' - The New York Times

''By turns hilarious and heartbreaking'' - Oprah Daily

''Punchy . . . with moments of deep sadness leavened by a sardonic humour'' - The Guardian

''A gripping memoir . . . exquisitely relatable'' - Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

''Lines so good you won''t just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share'' - The Washington Post

Raw, moving and seriously funny, How to Lose Your Mother is Molly Jong-Fast''s account of a sometimes chaotic upbringing and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly’s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, loss, confusion and deep grief. Taking us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, it leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.

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A gripping memoir about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, loss and healing, and what it means to finally accept your past and become an adult. Despite being raised in the shadow of fame, Molly''s story is both uniquely specific and utterly, exquisitely relatable.
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Brisk and funny and beautifully done
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Punchy . . . with moments of deep sadness leavened by a sardonic humour
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Molly Jong-Fast is the embodiment of Erica Jong''s legacy, and this book is a brave, if sometimes troubling, testament to her own capacity for survival
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By turns hilarious and heartbreaking.
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Often rancorous, sometimes furious, never self-indulgent . . . there''s also love in this book. The imperfect, painful, and maddening kind that so many readers will undoubtedly be able to relate to.
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Mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating – Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.
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Unsparing . . . a score-settling marathon at times, but also a loving elegy.
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A riveting reckoning on the challenging ties many have to their parents . . . Both heartbreaking and humorous.
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Conveys the mess, terror, loneliness and glory of familial love, in all its riveting complexity.
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In the tradition of the finest memoir writing, the author spares no one, herself least of all, as she untangles the bad from the good while still allowing for some tricky knots.
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Resisting tidy sentiment or easy answers, Jong-Fast dives headfirst into the often-difficult ambiguities of parent-child bonds. The results are stunning.
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Manages to leaven the pain with self-deprecating humour and a mighty reservoir of love