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Dead mom walking : a memoir of miracle cures and other disasters

Dead mom walking : a memoir of miracle cures and other disasters

Book 2020

"A daughter's tender and funny memoir about a mother who defies convention (but doesn't defy cancer). When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's stage one, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal. Elaine, an alternative school teacher and self-help junkie, was never a capital M 'Mommy'--she spent more time meditating than...