Autographed Copy of My Real Mother
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In My Real Mother, storyteller Tina N. Katamay explores the casualties of war, mental illness, and substance abuse, their effect on her family, and how abandonment, disappointments, failures, and the human condition nearly destroyed them all.
In this creative nonfiction, Tina weaves together true and fabricated stories, told to her by her "real" mother: the woman who gave birth to two children only to abandon them in pursuit of her own dreams.
Tina longed to understand who her real mother was and what her upbringing might have been like. What were her deepest desires, biggest secrets, failures, and triumphs? What had happened to the woman Tina loved so completely that she could not abandon her to accept the love of the "other" mother, the one who raised her and her sister?
In this first volume of a three-book series, Tina wants you to meet her "real" mother, Linda Holloway, and to share with you the experiences that led to her leaving. She wants you to hear Linda's sadly tragic but remarkably heroic stories, as told during her life and channeled to Tina after her death.
My Real Mother is a beautiful story of REAL LIFE without happy endings.
Book Description
A little girl with a vast imagination… abandoned.
A beautiful story without happy endings.What do you do when the person who is supposed to love you most in the world, leaves?
Desperate to understand why her mother left, Tina Katamay explores the past through her mother’s eyes. Discovering a life where war, mental illness, and substance abuse causes lives to unravel and dreams to be put aside.
This story is a work of nonfiction, with the fractures creatively painted in by that abandoned little girl that still resides deep within.