The Resource Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
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The item Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
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- Summary
- How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? 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 flaneur, 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. 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. Motherland 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Isbn
- 9780399181597
- Label
- Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing
- Title
- Motherland
- Title remainder
- a memoir of love, loathing, and longing
- Statement of responsibility
- Elissa Altman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy? 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 flaneur, 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. 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. Motherland 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
- Cataloging source
- AU-TuBDP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Altman, Elissa
- Intended audience
- Adult
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- Borrowbox
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- Altman, Elissa
- Lesbians
- Mothers and daughters
- Women authors, American
- Women caregivers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
- Link
- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=RHC_649087&b2bSite=1545
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 9780399181597-RHC1702172-000
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of Gold Coast Libraries
- Isbn
- 9780399181597
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
- Link
- https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/productDetail.html?productId=RHC_649087&b2bSite=1545
- Note
- Downloadable Book
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 9780399181597-RHC1702172-000
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to registered members of Gold Coast Libraries
- Isbn
- 9780399181597
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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