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What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang
5.0
What We Carry is a memoir of the author's relationship with her mother. As a second generation immigrant, Maya Lang always idealized her hardworking, intelligent mother who was a psychiatrist, but when Maya gave birth to a daughter and needed her mother most, her mother became unavailable.
Whenever it comes to mother-daughter relationship, it's complicated. In What We Carry, we read how Mary Lang reconciles the different versions her mother: the version from her childhood, the version she became aware after she grew up, and the version her mother gradually became after the onset of Alzheimer disease. Being a mother herself and caring for her aging mother, this memoir is also a journey of self-discovery.
This is a book about love, acceptance and letting go. It's written in terse sentences and in present tense. It reads like memory flashes.
Quotes:
"We must not judge....we can not know the weight of other woman's burden, whatever a woman decides, it is not easy."
"Does the demand for motherhood ever cease?"
Whenever it comes to mother-daughter relationship, it's complicated. In What We Carry, we read how Mary Lang reconciles the different versions her mother: the version from her childhood, the version she became aware after she grew up, and the version her mother gradually became after the onset of Alzheimer disease. Being a mother herself and caring for her aging mother, this memoir is also a journey of self-discovery.
This is a book about love, acceptance and letting go. It's written in terse sentences and in present tense. It reads like memory flashes.
Quotes:
"We must not judge....we can not know the weight of other woman's burden, whatever a woman decides, it is not easy."
"Does the demand for motherhood ever cease?"