Insanity Begins at Home

In his poignant memoir, Ken Ludmer, details his often raucous, always conflicted, and yet loving relationship with his mother. After sixty plus years of their epic battle, Ludmer and his Ma attempt to heal their wounds as he cares for her, following her broken hip at age 91. In the last eighteen months of her once brave and independent, world traveling life, they tell their stories to one another as they relive their battles in this American family life saga during the 40s, and 50s. Ludmer narrates his fun filled, adventurous hitchhiking throughout the USA and Europe in the 60s, with hilarity and heartfelt honesty. His Ma is never at a loss for zingers. Insanity Begins at Home shares the heartwarming and insightful true story of a therapists struggle to survive his mother's relentless ways, as they come full circle in this disarmingly touching memoir.