About the Book: Molly Jong-Fast’s How to Lose Your Mother is a raw, honest and darkly funny memoir about family, complicated love, loss and grief. Reflecting on her chaotic upbringing and complicated relationship with her mother, Jong-Fast explores how childhood experiences can shape us long into adulthood. When her mother develops dementia, Molly confronts the painful reality of losing someone she never felt she truly had. Blending humour, heartbreak and candid storytelling, this moving memoir offers an intimate portrait of family dynamics, motherhood, memory, caregiving and bereavement, while exploring the complicated bonds that connect us to the people we love.