The Mother Knot: A Memoir
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harrison, Kathryn, PUBLISHER: Rong>anong>dom House Trade, In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to greater understong>anong>ding, acceptong>anong>ce, freedom, ong>anong>d love,. Spare ong>anong>d unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison's courageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother, ong>anong>d of her depression ong>anong>d recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three, Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with a black, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermine her song>anong>ity ong>anong>d her safety, a darkness that is tied to her relationship with her own mother, dead for mong>anong>y years but no less a haunting presence. Shaken by a family emergency that reveals the fragility of her current happiness, Harrison falls prey to despair ong>anong>d ong>anong>xiety she believed she'd overcome long before. A relapse of ong>anong>orexia becomes the tong>anong>gible reminder of a youth spent trying to achieve the perfection she had hoped would win her mother's love, ong>anong>d forces her to confront, understong>anong>d, ong>anong>d ultimately cast out--in startling physical form--the demons within herself. Powerful, insightful, unforgettable, by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff), Kathryn Harrison's The Mother Knot" "is a knockout. "From the Hardcover edition."