Mom and Sis: Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are?

by Alyse Myers

This is another one of those books about an embittered, fallen-in-social-standing Mother who was not a very good mother to her daughters.

One of her daughters, Miss Myers, wrote about her childhood with her very difficult mother. But, you know, Miss Myers came through her childhood and achieved socially and career wise and motherhood wise. She even made up with her mother and had an adult relationship of sorts with the woman.

A lot of women are not fond of their mothers and for very good reasons, not every woman is motherhood material no matter how much she desires children.

But Miss Myers's mother fed her and educated her and generally took care of her when she was small. Miss Myers's mother threw her out of the house many times when she was older, but Miss Myers had developed backup systems (after school jobs and high school friends with indulgent parents and her grandparents) to tide her over until she could sneak back into the house and pretend, along with her mother, that nothing had happened.

Miss Myers was beaten by her mother, but not into unconsciousness or broken bones or mutilation. And there was a lot of screaming in the family, the family was known as The Screamers by their apartment neighbors.

There was nothing new to see or note in this book. I don't know why it was published other than Miss Myers, from her career, has publishing connections.

It's a mediocre memoir, but if you like fighting mothers and daughters, it's passable.