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  • How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Molly Jong-Fast (Author, Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)
4.4 out of 5 stars 1,051 ratings

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“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

“This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them.”—People

“Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating—beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.”—Anne Lamott

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 binge-worthy 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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  1. Listening Length
    6 hours and 55 minutes
  2. Author
    Molly Jong-Fast
  3. Narrator
    Molly Jong-Fast
  4. Audible release date
    June 3 2025
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B0DPJKSYWV
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 6 hours and 55 minutes
Author Molly Jong-Fast
Narrator Molly Jong-Fast
Audible.ca Release Date June 03 2025
Publisher Penguin Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0DPJKSYWV
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Top reviews from Canada

  • Ralph Lake
    5.0 out of 5 stars I love you, I love you not
    Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2025
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    Jong-Fast has done a remarkable thing with her memoir: she has held two opposing truths in her mind: I love my mother and I do not love my mother and refuses to resolve them in favour of one or the other. This permanent tension -permanent in the telling of the tale and likely permanent in the life of the teller of the tale is what makes Jong-Fast’s memoir ring so profoundly true.
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  • Dreamcatcher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2025
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    I read this book in one sitting, could not put it down!
    Molly Jong-Fast is an amazing writer. Better than that, she is a truth teller, in a time when we feel thirsty, living in a desert of untruths. Her willingness to bravely tell her story is inspiring. She is so human, so real.
    Possibly, it is my own neurosis that makes me have to say, don’t be so hard on yourself. Concentrate instead on being a good enough daughter and a wonderful writer. Your mother must be so proud.
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  • Sally Holloway, Author: Joke Writing (Serious Guide to)
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant insight into my favourite author
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2025
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    I grew up loving Erica Jong and so this Memoir was absolutely fascinating it is as well written and confessional as one of her own books and gave me a more grown-up view of the woman behind the Fear of Flying
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  • Anty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning memoir - raw and honest
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2025
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    Molly Jong-Fast gives a compelling, raw and honest account of difficult current times in her life. This book is dealing with the heartache of losing your mother to dementia, yet done in a humorous and open way. I could not put the book down. Beautifully written.
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  • gammyjill
    4.0 out of 5 stars “I love my mother…”
    Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2025
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    “I love my mother”. “I hate my mother”.

    The year 2023 was an Annus Horribilis for author Molly Jong-Fast. Her husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and her mother, author Erika Jong, had faded into dementia along with her fourth husband. It was the third year of Covid but things in society were still at sixes-and-sevens. But that seems to have been what Molly’s life had always been. As Jong’s only child, Molly was either greatly loved and lavished with attention or left with a nanny for months while Jong travelled the world, “dining out” on her fame.

    Jong-Fast is the daughter of an alcoholic and is one herself. She joined AA very early and has maintained her hard fought-for sobriety, whereas her mother has refused to deal with her problems. Molly has married once and has three children.

    One of the worst things a parent can do is to be inconsistent emotionally with the child. By that I mean is that the child never knows how her parent will act when they’re together. Will she be loved? Will she be yelled at? Or just ignored? Narcissistic parents seem to be the worst at this and Molly readily admits her mother is a narcissist.

    Molly’s memoir is very interesting and well written.
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  • Al
    5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2025
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    This books has changed my life, so much resonated with my personal experiences, and it helped me not to feel so darn guilty! It deserves to be a best seller.
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