How to Forget

<p> </p><p><strong>This is a masterfully crafted memoir an elegant tour de force that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment. The soulmate to Frank McCourt's <em>Angela's Ashes</em> <em> How to Forget</em> despite the promise of its title cannot be forgotten or ignored. --Augusten Burroughs author of <em>Running with Scissors</em> and <em>Toil & Trouble </em></strong></p><p><strong>In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents the star of<em> Orange Is the New Black</em> and bestselling author of <em>Born with Teeth</em> takes us on an unexpected journey of loss betrayal and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents.</strong> <br/></p><p><br/>They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left.</p><p>The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque--by turns turbulent tragic and joyful--lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those ruminations are transformed when in the wake of their deaths Kate uncovers long-kept secrets that challenge her understanding of the unconventional Irish Catholic household in which she was raised.</p><p>Breathtaking and powerful laced with the author's irreverent wit <em> How to Forget</em> is a considered portrait of a mother and a father an emotionally powerful memoir that demonstrates how love fuses children and parents and an honest examination of family memory and indelible loss.</p>