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A review by bobbygw
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast
dark
slow-paced
2.0
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