{"product_id":"motherland-a-memoir-of-love-loathing-and-longing","title":"Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Altman, Elissa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e BALLANTINE GROUP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Import\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 08-09-2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e Refer to Sapnet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“I’m reading this book right now and loving it!”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHow can a mother and daughter who love (but don’t always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Vibrating with emotion, this deeply honest account strikes a chord.”—People\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different kinds of love between women.”—O: The Oprah Magazine \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n After surviving a traumatic childhood in nineteen-seventies New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, settling in Connecticut with her wife of nearly twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, still orbiting around her mother but keeping far enough away to preserve the stable, independent world she has built as a writer and editor. Then Elissa is confronted with the unthinkable: Rita, whose days are spent as a flâneur, traversing Manhattan from the Clinique counters at Bergdorf to Bloomingdale’s and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall, leaving her completely dependent upon her daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n Now Elissa is forced to finally confront their profound differences, Rita’s yearning for beauty and glamour, her view of the world through her days in the spotlight, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of preserving youth. To sustain their fragile mother-daughter bond, Elissa must navigate the turbulent waters of their shared lives, the practical challenges of caregiving for someone who refuses to accept it, the tentacles of narcissism, and the mutual, frenetic obsession that has defined their relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMotherland is a story that touches every home and every life, mapping the ferocity of maternal love, moral obligation, the choices women make about motherhood, and the possibility of healing. Filled with tenderness, wry irreverence, and unforgettable characters, it is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPraise for Motherland\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“A bold, unapologetic look at the most sensitive of relationships, \u003cbr\u003e\nMotherland questions the unhealthy choices we make for love while conducting an unrelenting dissection of one fraught mother-daughter relationship.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Shelf Awareness (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n“True to the trajectory of Altman’s literary career thus far, \u003cbr\u003e\nMotherland offers something completely new not only to her own oeuvre, but also to the world of queer literature writ large. . . . Altman’s gorgeous new memoir makes clear . . . that many of us ‘want to know,’ that we ‘want to understand,’ but that we have been born into families or circumstances in which secrets and appearances and silences are held close to chest. \u003cbr\u003e\nMotherland lyrically, quietly, but relentlessly seeks out these secrets, trying to know, trying to understand.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Lambda Literary\u003cbr\u003e\n“This is the stuff memoirs are made of. Filled with tenderness, irreverence, and unforgettable characters, \u003cbr\u003e\nMotherland is an exploration of what it means to escape from the shackles of the past only to have to face them all over again.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Read it Forward \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“\u003cbr\u003e\nWashington Post columnist Altman shares the intimate and fascinating story of her alternately loving, turbulent, and toxic relationship with her mother. . . . Altman’s memoir is an incisive look at complex mother-daughter attachments.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Publishers Weekly \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“An acclaimed food writer and memoirist’s account of the codependent relationship she had with her charming and outrageous—but also very d\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399181603\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BALLANTINE GROUP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50147899408688,"sku":"Trans_9780399181849","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71j2ff0wz0L.jpg?v=1758002710","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/motherland-a-memoir-of-love-loathing-and-longing","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}