Molly Jong-Fast is an author journalist and political commentator and the only child of Erica
Jong the world-famous author of the sensational 70s novel Fear of Flying a groundbreaking
exploration of female sexuality. How to Lose Your Mother is her delicous 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 women it is also a story of
love of loss of confusion and of deep grief. Funny incisive moving and surprisingly
light-hearted How to Lose Your Mother revels in the gossipy details of Erica's famous friends
including a bitter rivalry with in inimtable Nora Ephron and takes us behind the scenes of a
fascinating family dynamic and into a better understanding of our own most precious
relationships.
