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3.79 AVERAGE
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I was looking forward to this memoir as Jong-Fast is a decent voxpop political commentator, and in light of it being about the relationship between her and the novelist and poet Erica Jong.
Unfortunately, Jong-Fast comes across as Endlessly complaining, narcissistic, selfish, while oscillating between masochistic self-denigration (if she says she's a bad daughter once, she says it at least dozens of times more throughout the memoir), and self-obsession and self-pity (she cries more in private about her circumstances than any other memoirist I've ever read.
I felt sorry for her husband, and her kids (about whom do you ever get any in-depth insight to their characters or personalities or views).
If you want a memoir that's chock-full of exhausting litanies of complaints, immaturity, and selfishness, this will not only rock your world, it will also sink your boat.
Unfortunately, Jong-Fast comes across as Endlessly complaining, narcissistic, selfish, while oscillating between masochistic self-denigration (if she says she's a bad daughter once, she says it at least dozens of times more throughout the memoir), and self-obsession and self-pity (she cries more in private about her circumstances than any other memoirist I've ever read.
I felt sorry for her husband, and her kids (about whom do you ever get any in-depth insight to their characters or personalities or views).
If you want a memoir that's chock-full of exhausting litanies of complaints, immaturity, and selfishness, this will not only rock your world, it will also sink your boat.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Self harm
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Almost DNF. A little hard to get through. Trigger warnings: death/illness, addiction, eating disorder. Tons of complaining and repetition from the writer. She came off as super privileged and whiney to me. Editing is not great.
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Struggled with this book very dark Also as a non American some of the references went above my head. Molly needed to tell this for her own sake and good for her but not sure we all needed to hear it?
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Molly Jong-Fast is fearless. This is an honest, open and healing story of loss and mother-daughter relationships.
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This was ok. The reflective parts felt a bit repetitive. The narration wasn’t great- there were lots of pauses that made it feel stilted. I sped it up and that helped some. Overall, I don’t regret reading it, but I’m not sure that I’d recommend it either. If you know who Erica Jong is or who the author is, you may have more investment in this than what I did, since I don’t know either.