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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
by Molly Jong-Fast
Difficult read. I find it interesting to read memoirs about daughters who didn’t have a good relationship with their mom, it does open some insights with my mom, even though we were close.
But damn, what a rough fucking year for Jong-fast. For some reason, with dementia it feels like the rest of the universe decided to just beat you down until you can’t stand. I really, really felt for her when reading that.
The writing wasn’t as strong as I would have liked, there was some repetitive sentences that I couldn’t tell if they were purposeful (mimicking dementia’s repetitive nature) or just accidental. I thought the ending saved some of the negative issues I had with the book.Not just because her husband goes into remission at the end, more so about finding her father and realizing he and her step mother are her parents too.
But damn, what a rough fucking year for Jong-fast. For some reason, with dementia it feels like the rest of the universe decided to just beat you down until you can’t stand. I really, really felt for her when reading that.
The writing wasn’t as strong as I would have liked, there was some repetitive sentences that I couldn’t tell if they were purposeful (mimicking dementia’s repetitive nature) or just accidental. I thought the ending saved some of the negative issues I had with the book.