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Instant New York Times Bestseller
"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 binge-worthy 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.