Mommy dearest? Molly Jong-Fast’s blistering memoir of her ‘always performing’ mother Erica is hilarious and moving
- Written by Jane Messer, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
My first boyfriend told me with some pride that he’d read Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1973), and Shere Hite’s The Hite Report (1976). Though they had been selling in the millions, I hadn’t yet read either, and was keen to find out what he had learned.
He was only 16 at the time, the mid 1970s, and was a proto male...
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