{"product_id":"how-to-lose-your-mother-a-daughters-memoir-hardcover","title":"How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMolly Jong-Fast\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMolly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book \u003ci\u003eFear of Flying\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Lose Your Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eHow to Lose Your Mother\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolly Jong-Fast\u003c\/b\u003e is a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, a political analyst at MSNBC News, and host of the podcast \u003ci\u003eFast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of three previous books. She lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.5 x 5.84 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47368255144114,"sku":"9780593656471","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/Xfs8pqEseo9780593656471.webp?v=1777576429","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/how-to-lose-your-mother-a-daughters-memoir-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}