The Year My Mother Came Back, Alice Eve Cohen
The Year My Mother Came Back, Alice Eve Cohen
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The Year My Mother Came Back

Author: Alice Eve Cohen

Narrator: Alice Eve Cohen

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2015

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Thirty years after her death, Alice's mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs surgery, her eldest daughter decides to track down her birth mother, and the year Alice gets a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the people we've lost to come back to us when we need them the most.

Although letting her mother back into her life is not an easy thing, Alice navigates it with humor, intelligence, and honesty. What she learns is that she must revisit her childhood, and allow herself to be a daughter once more, in order to take care of her own girls. Eventually, understanding and then forgiving her mother's parenting transgressions leads her to accept herself and to the realization that she doesn't have to be perfect to be a good mother.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martha on April 02, 2015

Alice Through the Looking Glass: My Mother, Myself Alice Eve Cohen's graceful memoir reminds us that our mother is the first mirror in whose reflection we come to see ourselves. Whether flawed, cracked, or seemingly shattered, that mirror reflects a light which never fades completely and may come to......more

Goodreads review by Susan on March 29, 2015

I loved this book. It's part coming of age(s) - into adulthood and into that other age, meaning aging. It's also about relationships between mothers and daughters - your own mother and that with your own daughter. Add in angst we all have in life, cultural issues, survival and grief and you find a v......more

Goodreads review by Robin on October 28, 2017

It wasn't bad, I just didn't emotionally connect with this book in any way.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on October 30, 2014

In a year when the author was treated for breast cancer, the author grapples with what it means to be a "perfect" mother as she engages in "conversations" with her dead mother whose own struggles with breast cancer devastated their relationship and corroded the trust and love between them. In this m......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on April 03, 2015

I loved Alice Cohen’s first book - full of insights, pain and joy - so I knew that once I started reading “The Year My Mother Came Back,” I wouldn’t be able to put it down. From the agonizing double arcs of ambivalent motherhood to its deeply moving ending, this healing story dives into the heart of......more