How to Lose Your Mother
a daughter's memoir
$31.19
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2025
Summary
Fame, Family, and Forgetting: A Daughter’s Memoir
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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035029341 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035029340 |
| Author: | Molly Jong-Fast |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 21mm |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A gripping memoir about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, loss and healing, and what it means to finally accept your past and become an adult. Despite being raised in the shadow of fame, Molly’s story is both uniquely specific and utterly, exquisitely relatable. – Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneMesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating – Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life. – Anne Lamott, author of Bird by BirdConveys the mess, terror, loneliness and glory of familial love, in all its riveting complexity. – Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History
About The Author
Molly Jong-Fast
Molly Jong-Fast is the author of three books, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the Fast Politics podcast.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.