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How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir
by Kate Mulgrew
I wanted to read this book after listening to an excellent interview with the author on RTÉ radio. She is a successful TV and stage actress but this book is more about her place in a large Irish-American family (second child, oldest daughter) and was prompted by the deaths of both her parents over the course of a few years - her mother slowly of Alzheimer’s, her Dad reasonably quickly after a cancer diagnosis. It is an excellent depiction of an adult child’s perspective on their parents own childhoods, their marriage, their siblings and their own independent relationships with the parents. It is in no way idolized, some of it must have been hard to write, and possibly hard for family members to read, but it feels driven by a core truth.
The book is structured well, dealing first with her father (who died first) and then her mother. It is heartbreaking at times but worth a read.
The book is structured well, dealing first with her father (who died first) and then her mother. It is heartbreaking at times but worth a read.