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katiej 's review for:
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
by Molly Jong-Fast
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
A memoir about the different stages and types of grief and how one person can experience them all within such a short period of time. An interesting read but nothing extraordinary. It might have been better presented as an essay or a long form article in a magazine. It felt excessively repetitive.
Molly clearly struggles living in the shadow of her once famous mum but really was her childhood all that bad? The memoir unfortunately felt winey and woe is me which understand is often the point of memoirs but I’m need of something light to read next.
Having a better awareness of who Molly’s mother is would have maybe made this a better reading experience but I don’t think would have helped to make an enjoyable one.
Unfortunately a big miss for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent