How to Lose Your Mother

A brutally funny mother-daughter memoir that asks the question, How can you lose something you never had?

Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of Erica Jong, author of the feminist autobiographical novel Fear of Flying. A sensational exploration of female sexual desire, it catapulted Erica into the heady world of fame in the early 1970s. Molly grew up with her mother everywhere - on television, in the crossword puzzle, in the newspaper. But rarely at home. How to Lose Your Mother is Molly-s delicious and despairing memoir about an intense mother-daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother-s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly-s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, of loss, of confusion and of deep grief. Honest, moving, sharp and funny, How to Lose Your Mother takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, revels in the gossipy details of Erica-s famous friends and enemies, and leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.