KEY MARKETING
POINTS
• Unique and
beautifully written story of a narcissistic mother who at age 75 decides to
exit the world through suicide as a coup against aging. Saying she didn't want
to be a burden, she leaves behind a host of burdens for her adult daughter, not
the least of which is 45 years of diaries and secrets.
• For readers
interested in fraught mother-daughter relationships and the radically different
narratives family members can have about truth, life, and the way we choose to
present ourselves to the world, and ultimately how a child can emancipate
herself while also remaining connected to the mother who once controlled her.
• Book Club
members will have no end of themes to discuss: mothering, parenting, domestic
violence, higher education, natural birth, travel, divorce, assisted suicide,
therapy, cultural insight, generational secrets, corrosive grief, optimism.
Book Group Questions are included in the book.
• Susannah
Kennedy has communities and relatives throughout the United States and Germany.
She has strong San Francisco Bay Area ties. Currently she is based in Marin
County but also has lived in Santa Cruz County.
• "Some of
the most honest, heartfelt, beautiful creative nonfiction I have ever read,
both as an editor and as a reader." -Liza Olson, editor of (mac)ro(mic)
