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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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"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built on the ferocity of mother-daughter love, moral obligation, and the possibility and promise of healing. Having survived a harrowing childhood at the hands of her mother, Elissa is finally settled in Connecticut with her wife of almost twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, orbiting around her mother, but keeping far enough away from her to preserve the independent, quiet life she has built for herself. All of this is suddenly at risk when Rita, whose days are spent traversing the streets of Manhattan from Bergdorf's to Bloomingdale's and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall that leaves her fully dependent on her only child. Forced to confront her mother's desperate need for beauty, her view of the world through a medley of men, her lost days in the spotlight, addiction, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of maintaining her youth, Elissa must navigate the waters of their shared history, obligation, the problems of caregiving and age, and the frenetic, co-dependent love that has defined their obsessive relationship. Motherland asks the universal mother-daughter question: How much love is too much love?"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)
Isbn
9780399181597
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=285&titleId=4570192
Instance
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
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built on the ferocity of mother-daughter love, moral obligation, and the possibility and promise of healing. Having survived a harrowing childhood at the hands of her mother, Elissa is finally settled in Connecticut with her wife of almost twenty years. After much time, therapy, and wine, Elissa is at last in a healthy place, orbiting around her mother, but keeping far enough away from her to preserve the independent, quiet life she has built for herself. All of this is suddenly at risk when Rita, whose days are spent traversing the streets of Manhattan from Bergdorf's to Bloomingdale's and back again, suffers an incapacitating fall that leaves her fully dependent on her only child. Forced to confront her mother's desperate need for beauty, her view of the world through a medley of men, her lost days in the spotlight, addiction, and the money that has mysteriously disappeared in the name of maintaining her youth, Elissa must navigate the waters of their shared history, obligation, the problems of caregiving and age, and the frenetic, co-dependent love that has defined their obsessive relationship. Motherland asks the universal mother-daughter question: How much love is too much love?"--
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Biography type
autobiography
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Altman, Elissa
Dewey number
306.874/3092
Index
no index present
LC call number
CT275.A624
LC item number
A3 2019eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
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http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Altman, Elissa
  • Altman, Elissa
  • Codependency
  • Lesbians
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women authors, American
  • Women caregivers
  • Connecticut
  • New York (N.Y.)
Label
Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=285&titleId=4570192
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on1111735614
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unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)
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online
Isbn
9780399181597
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computer
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not applicable
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remote
Stock number
6175B5BF-7926-49B9-A3C6-00D97AD7C474
System control number
(OCoLC)1111735614
Label
Motherland : a memoir of love, loathing, and longing, Elissa Altman
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=285&titleId=4570192
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
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multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
on1111735614
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780399181597
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
Stock number
6175B5BF-7926-49B9-A3C6-00D97AD7C474
System control number
(OCoLC)1111735614

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