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How to Lose Your Mother

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14 June 2025
415 minutes
Molly Jong-Fast
9781035029372
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

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 Someone
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking.Oprah Daily, The most anticipated books of 2025
This deeply personal and powerful memoir, though witty and snarky, has a bittersweet tone and an often self-critical pose. Political journalist and TV commentator Jong–Fast [...] narrates with raw emotion, intense passion, and a propelling paceAudioFile
Mesmerizing, 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 Bird