Who Do You Think You Are?
A Memoir

Name: Who Do You Think You Are?
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Alyse Myers
ISBN: 9781481551397

Author: Alyse Myers

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 05/06/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

Growing up in Queens in the 1960s, Alyse Myers always yearned for more in life as she watched her mother settle for an unhappy marriage, an unsatisfying job, and a joyless existence. Alyse rejected everything about her mother’s life, but after her death, she inherited a small wooden box whose contents revealed a deeply moving truth.The dysfunctional relationship between Myers and her mother is poignant and heartbreaking at times. This is an honest look at how two very different and conflicting personalities inhabit the mother-daughter relationship and how Myers learned to reconcile her relationship with her mother after her death.

About Alyse Myers

Alyse Myers is vice president, brand programs for the New York Times. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

About Lorna Raver

Lorna Raver, named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year, has received numerous Audie nominations and AudioFile Earphones Awards. An experienced stage actress, she has also guest-starred on many top television series and starred in director Sam Raimi’s film Drag Me to Hell. Among her many Blackstone titles are The Age of Innocence, Up from Orchard Street, The Lodger, Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker, and Diamond Ruby.

Reviews

Goodreads review by RYCJ on January 11, 2010

Although this wasn't exactly my story (no memoir could ever be...why I love them so), but `Who Do You Think You Are,' I recall being a very dominant attitude 'ever so' prevalent in that time. I understood them all, none more so than Alyse's esoteric relationship with her mother. At the very beginnin......more

Goodreads review by Katie on March 22, 2010

This was a solid read. It was a nice change of pace for me, going from some pretty intense fictions to someone's memoirs, a genre I often don't explore. I loved the tone of this book - the realness of the author and her family. It wasn't glamorized or horrified. She went into enough detail without o......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 07, 2008

Who Do You Think You Are? is a memoir of Alyse Myers' relationship with her mother. Growing up Alyse's parents were always fighting and then her father died at the age of thirty-four when Alyse was eleven. Alyse never wanted anything, but to NOT have a life like her mother's. As soon as she turned 1......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on February 18, 2010

This is a memoir coupled with a mystery. Alyse's childhood was not happy, with her father's illness, mother's resentment and constant fighting and bickering. When she discovers a wooden box in her mothers closet after her death, she hopes the contents of the box will answer her questions about her p......more

Quotes

“Myers provides a moving lesson: we attach to our mothers when we’re young, reject them as young adults, and, hopefully, as Myers does, come to a place where we can identify with them and view them with empathy. This journey has universal resonance for myriad readers.” Library Journal (starred review)

“Here’s a book so honest it won’t let you off the hook…the writing is masterly: taut, honest, and strangely satisfying.” Frank McCourt

“Moving…The greatest gift [Myers’ mother] gave her daughter was the determination to create a different sort of life for herself.” Publishers Weekly