Molly Jong-Fast, How to Lose Your Mother

The 34^th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents

Molly Jong-Fast, How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir

In conversation with Mara Davis, Atlanta Media Personality

Author Talk, Q & A & Book Signing

Instant New York Times Bestseller

“With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won’t just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share.” —The Washington Post

From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood

Molly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book, Fear of Flying, launched her into second-wave feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be heading somewhere that wasn’t with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Molly’s husband discovered he had a rare cancer, Jong-Fast was catapulted into a transformative year.

How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our hard-won adulthood. A pitch-perfect balance of acceptance and rage, humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story of loss alongside a singular story of a literary life. This is a memoir that will stand alongside the classics of the genre.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Molly Jong-Fast is an American author, journalist, political commentator, and podcaster. She is known for her sharp wit, honest commentary, and work in political and cultural critique. Born into a renowned literary family, she is the daughter of novelist Erica Jong and writer Jonathan Fast, and granddaughter of Howard Fast. She has written several books and hosts the podcast, “Fast Politics.”

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