· a memoir of love, loathing, and longing by Elissa Altman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 6, An acclaimed food writer and memoirist’s account of the codependent relationship she had with her charming and outrageous—but also very difficult—mother. · “Elissa Altman’s haltingly poignant Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing captures with clear-eyed candor the ways that Altman struggles to love her mother despite her mother’s insistence on creating Altman in her own imageBrand: Random House Publishing Group. · How a daughter separates from her mother, comes back, leaves again, and comes to a place, ultimately, of better understanding. Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing. By Elissa Altman. Ballantine Books. Hardcover, , www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Praise for Motherland "Rarely has a mother-daughter relationship been excavated with such honesty. Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.". Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing is written by Elissa Altman and published by Ballantine. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Motherland are , and the print ISBNs are , Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include X, , , Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother, and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family." - Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance. "Elissa Altman's Motherland traces the history of a particularly complicated.
Elissa Altman’s haltingly poignant Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing captures with clear-eyed candor the ways that Altman struggles to love her mother despite her mother’s insistence on creating Altman in her own image. “Elissa Altman’s haltingly poignant Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing captures with clear-eyed candor the ways that Altman struggles to love her mother despite her mother’s insistence on creating Altman in her own image. Motherland is the wise new memoir from Elissa Altman, a writer who those of us in the queer community have seen rise to the occasion in two previous, wide-reaching volumes: Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw and Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking. True to the trajectory of Altman’s literary career thus far, Motherland offers something completely new not only to her own oeuvre, but also to the world of queer literature writ large: a.
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