Ebook: Motherland: a memoir of love, loathing, and longing
Author: Altman Elissa
- Tags: Codependency, Families, Lesbians, Lesbians--United States, Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters, Mothers and daughters--United States, Women authors, Women authors American, Women caregivers, Women caregivers--United States, Biography, Autobiographies, Biographies, Altman Elissa, Altman Elissa -- Family, Women caregivers -- United States -- Biography, Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography, Women authors American -- Biography, Lesbians -- United States -- Biography, New York (N.Y.) -
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: Connecticut;New York (N.Y.);New York (State);New York;United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. This is their story, built on the ferocity of mother-daughter love, moral obligation, and the possibility and promise of healing. -- adapted from publisher info;"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built on the ferocity of mother-daughter love, moral obligation, and the possibility and promise of healing. Having survived a harrowing childhood at the hands of her mother, Elissa is finally settled in Connecticut with her wife of almost twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, orbiting around her mother, but keeping far enough away from her to preserve the independent, quiet life she has built for herself. All of this is suddenly at risk when Rita, whose days are spent traversing the streets of Manhattan from Bergdorf's to Bloomingdale's and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall that leaves her fully dependent on her only child. Forced to confront her mother's desperate need for beauty, her view of the world through a medley of men, her lost days in the spotlight, addiction, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of maintaining her youth, Elissa must navigate the waters of their shared history, obligation, the problems of caregiving and age, and the frenetic, co-dependent love that has defined their obsessive relationship. Motherland asks the universal mother-daughter question: How much love is too much love?"--
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