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Also by Molly Jong-Fast:

How to Lose Your Mother, June 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Social Climber's Handbook, May 2011
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How to Lose Your Mother
Molly Jong-Fast

A Daughter's Memoir

Penguin
June 2025
On Sale: June 3, 2025
256 pages
ISBN: 0593656474
EAN: 9780593656471
Kindle: B0DNPDGVYK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir

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.

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