LINDA CARROLL was adopted at birth, raised in San Francisco, and only later discovered that her biological mother is the writer Paula Fox. Married at eighteen, and twice more before she was thirty, she is now the mother of five grown children, including singer/songwriter Courtney Love. She is a therapist and writer and lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her husband of seventeen years.
Advance Praise for Her Mother’s Daughter
“There is a delicious fictional quality to this true-life story
that I found riveting. In Carroll’s deft telling, the book is
a kind of resurrection of a family . . . I think I loved Her
Mother's Daughter most for the devotion that Linda Carroll has
for her unusual family through decades of separations and
unconventional journeys.”
—Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
“Looking backward and forward in time, this haunting memoir tells
the story of a young woman’s journey to finding herself, her birth
mother, and her daughter, Courtney Love. The candor and power of
these pages illuminates the difficulties of all mother-daughter
relationships, but offers a rare glimpse into that elemental
relationship when it is shadowed by the temperamental features of
early-onset bipolar disorder. Linda Carroll has grit and grace, and
writes like her mother’s daughter.”
—Demitri F. Papolos, M.D., and Janice Papolos, authors of The
Bipolar Child
While one might anticipate an exploitative tell-all from Courtney Love's mother, this is a contemplative memoir of the author's adoptive childhood and lifelong struggle for a sense of herself as both a daughter and a mother. Carroll came of age in the San Francisco of the 1960s, and her tale excellently captures this vibrant, chaotic setting as she experiences difficulties with a family that refuses to forget her adoptive status yet deprives her of any family history. She finds herself pregnant and hastily married at 18, and as she grows into the role of mother, she struggles to understand her daughter, whom she recognizes as a deeply troubled genius. When Courtney gives birth to her own daughter, Carroll is inspired to find her birth mother, writer Paula Fox. The end of the book, involving Courtney's adulthood and rise to fame and Carroll's reunion with Fox, is a bit rushed. However, Carroll proves herself a gifted writer in a compelling read that delicately examines the nature of family, identity, and the links between them. Recommended for all public libraries.-Amanda Glasbrenner, New York Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Advance Praise for Her Mother's Daughter
"There is a delicious fictional quality to this true-life story
that I found riveting. In Carroll's deft telling, the book is a
kind of resurrection of a family . . . I think I loved Her
Mother's Daughter most for the devotion that Linda Carroll has
for her unusual family through decades of separations and
unconventional journeys."
-Terry Ryan, author of The Prize Winner of Defiance,
Ohio
"Looking backward and forward in time, this haunting memoir tells
the story of a young woman's journey to finding herself, her birth
mother, and her daughter, Courtney Love. The candor and power of
these pages illuminates the difficulties of all mother-daughter
relationships, but offers a rare glimpse into that elemental
relationship when it is shadowed by the temperamental features of
early-onset bipolar disorder. Linda Carroll has grit and grace, and
writes like her mother's daughter."
-Demitri F. Papolos, M.D., and Janice Papolos, authors of The
Bipolar Child
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