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03364aam a22005178i 4500 001 7CDFEC4CB9A211E9BB44230E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190808010507 008 190320s2019 nyu 000 0aeng c 010 $a 2019007425 020 $a 039918158X 020 $a 9780399181580 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ct $a n-us-ny $a n-us-ct 050 00 $a CT275.A624 $b A3 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Altman, Elissa, $e author. 245 10 $a Motherland : $b a memoir of love, loathing, and longing / $c Elissa Altman. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1908. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 249 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "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?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Altman, Elissa. 600 10 $a Altman, Elissa $x Family. 650 0 $a Women caregivers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Codependency. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $v Biography. 650 0 $a Lesbians $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Connecticut $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 10 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20200310040846.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20200304012729.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204095650.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110082432.0 952 $l VFPB334 $d 20191108010543.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20191005011404.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20190918034617.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190904010645.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190809010045.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190808011214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7CDFEC4CB9A211E9BB44230E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search