My Mother My Madness

Ever since her eccentric, rebellious mother entered assisted living, Colleen’s to-do list keeps growing. Her phone rings nonstop with demands.

I need cigarettes.

I’ve run out of toilet paper.

Mom's Cokes are nearly finished.

Have you paid the levy yet?

Meanwhile, Colleen is also raising her own daughter, holding together a marriage and business, and navigating a web of inherited mental health issues.

My Mother, My Madness is Colleen Higgs’s diary of her mother’s final ten years. At once ...