Molly Jong-Fast – författare

Molly Jong-Fast grew up in a town house with a pink door and paintings of ladies playing naked Twister. There were world-famous therapists living in her cellar, a secretary with a brain tumor, a nanny who was a numbers runner, and grandparents who revealed that they had sex on their first date.Leading therapists agree: a normal childhood.In Girl [Maladjusted], Molly Jong-Fast takes us on a tour of her big fat Jewish bohemian upbringing. With the same keen insight, effortless cool, and buoyant wit that won her legions of devoted readers in Normal Girl, she offers a riotous and affecting coming-of-age story that is both uniquely weird and weirdly universal.From the Trade Paperback edition.

HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.   Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master of the universe Dick Greenbaum, learns about some shady dealings that threaten his position at The Bank. Daisy refuses to allow her family to slip down the social ladder, so she devises a madcap plan: Anyone who jeopardizes her place at the top will simply have to be dispatched—six feet under. From Dick’s arrogant boss to his scheming former mistress to a pair of nosy bloggers, Daisy’s hit list is a who’s who of big names with even bigger secrets. But with the body count rising as the Dow Jones falls, can Daisy really get away with murder?From the Trade Paperback edition.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, Jong-Fast achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy, arming us all with lines so good you won’t just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share.” —The Washington Post “This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them.” —People “Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir is mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable, crazily honest, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating—beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life.” —Anne Lamott From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhoodMolly Jong-Fast is the only child of a famous woman, writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave feminist stardom. She grew up yearning for a connection with her dreamy, glamorous, just out of reach mother, who always seemed to be heading somewhere that wasn’t with Molly. When, in 2023, Erica was diagnosed with dementia just as Molly’s husband discovered he had a rare cancer, Jong-Fast was catapulted into a transformative year.How to Lose Your Mother is a compulsively readable memoir about an intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and the upheavals that challenge our hard-won adulthood. A pitch-perfect balance of acceptance and rage, humor and heart, How to Lose Your Mother tells a universal story of loss alongside a singular story of a literary life. This is a memoir that will stand alongside the classics of the genre.

The New York Times bestseller.Molly Jong-Fast's honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had – and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated.'I was just bowled over by this book' – Nigella Lawson'A gripping memoir about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, loss and healing . . . exquisitely relatable' – Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone______Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter of acclaimed writer Erica Jong. How to Lose Your Mother is Molly’s despairing memoir about that intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly’s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, loss, confusion and deep grief.How to Lose Your Mother takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, revels in the gossipy details of Erica’s famous friends and enemies, and leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.'Conveys the mess, terror, loneliness and glory of familial love, in all its riveting complexity' – Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History

'I was just bowled over by this book' - Nigella Lawson'A gripping memoir about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, loss and healing . . . exquisitely relatable' - Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'Conveys the mess, terror, loneliness and glory of familial love, in all its riveting complexity' - Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History______Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter of acclaimed writer Erica Jong. How to Lose Your Mother is Molly’s delicious and despairing memoir about that intense mother–daughter relationship, a sometimes chaotic upbringing with a fame-hungry parent, and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly’s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, loss, confusion and deep grief.Honest, moving and brutally funny, How to Lose Your Mother takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, revels in the gossipy details of Erica’s famous friends and enemies, and leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.

The New York Times BestsellerAn honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had – and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated.'I was just bowled over by this book' – Nigella Lawson‘Often rancorous, sometimes furious, never self-indulgent’ – Financial Times'Brisk and funny and beautifully done' – The Times'Unsparing . . . but also a loving elegy' – The New York Times'By turns hilarious and heartbreaking' – Oprah Daily'Punchy . . . with moments of deep sadness leavened by a sardonic humour' – The Guardian'A gripping memoir . . . exquisitely relatable' – Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'Lines so good you won't just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share' – The Washington PostMolly Jong-Fast is the daughter of acclaimed writer Erica Jong. Raw, moving and seriously funny, How to Lose Your Mother is her account of a sometimes chaotic upbringing and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly’s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, loss, confusion and deep grief.Taking us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, it leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.

The New York Times BestsellerAn honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had - and a comfort to anyone who knows that love can be complicated.'I was just bowled over by this book' – Nigella Lawson‘Often rancorous, sometimes furious, never self-indulgent’ – Financial Times'Brisk and funny and beautifully done' – The Times'Unsparing . . . but also a loving elegy' – The New York Times'By turns hilarious and heartbreaking' – Oprah Daily'Punchy . . . with moments of deep sadness leavened by a sardonic humour' – The Guardian'A gripping memoir . . . exquisitely relatable' – Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'Lines so good you won't just want to underline them, you will want to cut them out to share' – The Washington PostRaw, moving and seriously funny, How to Lose Your Mother is Molly Jong-Fast's account of a sometimes chaotic upbringing and how that can really mess you up. But with her mother’s heartbreaking descent into dementia, and Molly’s realization that she is going to lose this remarkable woman, it is also a story of love, loss, confusion and deep grief. Taking us behind the scenes of a fascinating and sometimes tumultuous family dynamic, it leaves us with a better understanding of our own most precious relationships.

"Randa, what''s wrong with you?""Nothing. I mean, I''m a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I''m just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?" Molly Jong-Fast''s Normal Girl is striking-and as funny as it as real. Inspired by her own experiences growing up in the decadent, fast-paced netherworld of New York City''s jet set, Jong-Fast''s debut novel is a hilarious, hard-edged walk past the velvet rope.At just nineteen, Miranda Woke seems to have it all. Her parents are famous socialites, she''s already been written up on Page Six sixteen times, she''s on all the right invitation lists, and drugs and alcohol are never in short supply. But while her image screams "It girl," she''d rather be a normal girl, and the A-list feels even more uncomfortable than her Manolo Blahnik shoes. In fact, she''s become the "living embodiment of an awkward phase" with "more issues than Harper''s Bazaar." Neither Xanax nor Deepak Chopra tapes help. And now that her junkie party has trashed her parents'' house, she has to liquidate her trust fund to pay Mom''s decorator for a quick fix. But worst of all, Miranda thinks she just murdered her own boyfriend.In an all-too-glamorous world where the cell phone is always ringing, Miranda sees no escape other than a downward spiral of cocaine, Valium, and heroin. It takes friends who offer more than air kisses to force Miranda to look in the mirror and get some help.