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How to Lose Your Mother

A Daughter's Memoir

Molly Jong-Fast Normal Girl Inc

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A brutally funny mother-daughter memoir that asks the question, How can you lose something you never had?

Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of Erica Jong, author of the feminist autobiographical novel Fear of Flying.

A sensational exploration of female sexual desire, it catapulted Erica

into the heady world of fame in the early 1970s. Molly grew up with her

mother everywhere - on television, in the crossword puzzle, in the

newspaper. But rarely at home.

How to Lose Your Mother is

Molly's delicious and despairing memoir about an intense mother-daughter

relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent,

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, of

loss, of confusion and of deep grief.

Honest, moving, sharp and funny, How to Lose Your Mother

takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous

family dynamic, revels in the gossipy details of Erica's famous friends

and enemies, and leaves us with a better understanding of our own most

precious relationships.
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Imprint:   Picador
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   322g
ISBN:   9781035029341
ISBN 10:   1035029340
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Molly Jong-Fast is the author of three books, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the Fast Politics podcast.

Reviews for How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir

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. -- Lori Gottlieb, author of <i>Maybe You Should Talk to Someone<i> Mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating – Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life. -- Anne Lamott, author of <i>Bird by Bird<i> Conveys the mess, terror, loneliness and glory of familial love, in all its riveting complexity. -- Claire Messud, author of <i>This Strange Eventful History </i>


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