My Mother's Erasure: A Memoir

For fans of Alexandra Fuller’s Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, a daughter’s story of watching her mother’s itinerant and international life descend into addiction—and her own journey to recognize that she is powerless to save her.

In this emotional memoir, Joya Taft-Dick retraces her mother’s life—from a childhood rooted in an idyllic Vermont town through her years as an “expat” and a “trailing spouse” as the family moves from one country to the next. While Joya’s father’s Uni...