How to Lose Your Mother

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.