How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir Audiobook (Free)

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange May be the New Black and bestselling writer of Blessed with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, as well as the transcendent character of a daughter’s love for her parents.

They state you can’t go home again. But when her dad is identified as having aggressive lung cancers and her mom with atypical Alzheimer’s, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in about How to Neglect: A Daughter’s Memoir Iowa to spend period with her parents and look after them in the time they have left.

The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque-by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful-lead her to think about each of their lives and exactly how they shaped her personal. Those ruminations are transformed when, in the wake of their fatalities, Kate uncovers long-kept secrets that challenge her knowledge of the unconventional Irish Catholic household in which she was raised.

Breathtaking and powerful, laced using the author’s irreverent wit, How to Ignore 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 space, and indelible loss.