Reviews round-up
How to Lose Your Mother
by Molly Jong-Fast
5 of 6 critics positive
7 reviews: 1 rave, 4 positives, 1 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Mommy dearest? Molly Jong-Fast’s blistering memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica is hilarious and moving
“staggering self-portrait”
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast
“In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing”
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life
“unsparing account of her famous mother's decline into dementia”
The Devastating Book Erica Jong Always Knew Her Daughter Would Write (Published 2025)
“sad, dishy and relatable”
Review | Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir about her famous mom is sad, dishy and relatable
“brave but bleak memoir unpicks her complex relationship”
The feminist icon who wasn’t
“the misery of being Erica Jong’s daughter”
The zipless mom — the misery of being Erica Jong’s daughter
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
