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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Algonquin Books
Publication date May 3, 2016
Pages 288
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781616205331
ISBN-10 1616205334
Dimensions 0 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Original list price $15.95
Summaries and Reviews
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“A wry, magical memoir about the transcendent power of mother-daughter love.” —Elle
 
Thirty years after her death, Alice Cohen’s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh. Cohen is in the midst of the hardest year she’s ever had to face: One daughter needs a harrowing surgery, the other wants to reunite with her birth mother, and Cohen receives a frightening diagnosis herself. Though their relationship was fraught when she was alive, Cohen’s mother keeps returning to her during that year, a flawed but well-meaning guide. 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.

Letting her mother back in is its own struggle, one that requires Cohen to forgive her for her parenting transgressions, but Cohen navigates it with humor, intelligence, and honesty. The Year My Mother Came Back is a wry, poignant memoir about mothers, daughters, and the power of forgiveness.
 
“[A] powerful, poetic new memoir.” Tablet magazine
 
“This thoughtful memoir shows how our past and present remain constantly intertwined, and how being a mother is a complex journey that’s often full of stunning surprises.” BookPage
 
“[A] finely wrought memoir . . . Cohen ultimately gets closure with her mother, who gives her advice beyond the grave about how to be a better mother, how to face cancer, and how, ultimately, to be a daughter who finally finds peace with the complex woman who had more of an impact on her life than she ever realized.” Publishers Weekly
 
The Year My Mother Came Back is a riveting journey . . . funny, painful, absurd, and heartwarming . . . Alice’s own struggle to accept her imperfect self is a loving message to mothers who struggle to live life with grace. A beautiful book.” —Julie Metz, New York Times bestselling author of Perfection


Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780415247078 Book cover for 9781616203191
 
from Algonquin Books (March 31, 2015)
9781616203191 | details & prices | 276 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.95
With Jonathan D. Culler (other contributor) | from Routledge (December 1, 2002); titled "Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies"
9780415247078 | details & prices | List price $55.01
This edition also contains Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
About: Contains essays discussing deconstruction by such authors as Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and Barbara Johnson.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781616205331
 
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from Algonquin Books (May 3, 2016)
9781616205331 | details & prices | 288 pages | List price $15.95
About: “A wry, magical memoir about the transcendent power of mother-daughter love.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781622315611
 
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (March 31, 2015)
9781622315611 | details & prices | 6.00 × 5.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $29.99

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