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MOTHERLAND
A Memoir of Beauty, Time and Aging
James Beard award-winner, Elissa Altman, captures the universal story of mothers and daughters, their
visceral longing for nurturing and sustenance, and the ultimate role-reversal that comes with age.
visceral longing for nurturing and sustenance, and the ultimate role-reversal that comes with age.
How does a fifty-something food writer dedicated to the act of feeding other people nourish her anorexic, octogenarian, personality-disordered former television singer/model New Yorker mother as she grows older? How does she care for her -- - spend time with and coddle her --- when they have never actually liked each other?
At its core, MOTHERLAND will tell a story of mothers and daughters and the gulf between us, and how we live and age together no matter who we are: confounded by each other as if we were both from Mars, desperately wanting to love each other but not knowing how and somehow, against all odds and in spite of our history, succeeding. The story of MOTHERLAND will end as every middle aged daughter of every elderly narcissistic personality disordered mother prays it will: with a truce --- fragile, tentative, and deeply tender --- that is as moving as it is universally enlightening.
Elissa Altman is the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Treyf and Poor Man's Feast as well as the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. She wrote the Washington Post column,"Feeding My Mother," that this book expands upon and her work has appeared everywhere from OnBeing.org and O, The Oprah Magazine to Tin House, the New York Times, The Guardian and the TEDx stage, and has been anthologized for five consecutive years in Best Food Writing.
At its core, MOTHERLAND will tell a story of mothers and daughters and the gulf between us, and how we live and age together no matter who we are: confounded by each other as if we were both from Mars, desperately wanting to love each other but not knowing how and somehow, against all odds and in spite of our history, succeeding. The story of MOTHERLAND will end as every middle aged daughter of every elderly narcissistic personality disordered mother prays it will: with a truce --- fragile, tentative, and deeply tender --- that is as moving as it is universally enlightening.
Elissa Altman is the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Treyf and Poor Man's Feast as well as the James Beard Award-winning blog of the same name. She wrote the Washington Post column,"Feeding My Mother," that this book expands upon and her work has appeared everywhere from OnBeing.org and O, The Oprah Magazine to Tin House, the New York Times, The Guardian and the TEDx stage, and has been anthologized for five consecutive years in Best Food Writing.
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Published 2019-08-01 by Ballantine Books |