In a career spanning more than four decades, Kate Mulgrew has appeared in countless television shows, plays, and movies, notably Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope, and, most recently, Galina "Red" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black. She has been honoured with a Golden Satellite Award, a Saturn Award, an Obie award and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. She has three children and lives in New York City.
“A darkly unsettling and unvarnished post-mortem of one fractured,
complicated American family that will feel deeply, even painfully,
familiar to some and shockingly, fascinatingly alien to others, but
its emotional power is universally compelling. This is a
masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour de force that firmly
establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment.
The soulmate to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, How to Forget,
despite the promise of its title, cannot be forgotten or ignored.”
— Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Toil &
Trouble
“This is a passionate book by a passionate writer. Overflowing
with the true terrors of family life, with the fight for love and
connection and understanding, with an amazing American story of
hope and disappointment, sorrow and roots, this memoir will
electrify readers and become a part of what we know about who we
are.” — Anne Roiphe, journalist, novelist, and author of the memoir
1185 Park Avenue
“Kate Mulgrew is a brilliant actor, which does not conceal her
brilliance with the pen. This memoir, How to Forget, plunges you
into familiar, familial depths of death, disease, and despair, only
to pull you up again with a bawdy laugh. Death, disease, and
despair are not walls for Mulgrew, but they are steps towards the
sunlight of serenity. Read and cry, read and laugh, read and
remember How to Forget.” — Malachy McCourt, author of Death Need
Not Be Fatal
“Mulgrew, an actress best known for Star Trek: Voyager and Orange
Is the New Black, plays her best role: as herself. This is no
Hollywood tell-all, but a moving personal story about her family,
in particular her aging parents, whom she cared for as they faced
terminal illnesses.” — Washington Post
“A rich, eloquent, and emotionally complex portrait of
parent-child bonds and a colorful, unforgettable family. . . . [A]
candid and moving memoir.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Though both sections of Mulgrew’s memoir build to painful
goodbyes, How to Forget is more than just a sad play-by-play of
illness and decline. It’s a beautiful portrait of a daughter’s love
for her parents, packed with sharp, amusing recollections, all told
with love.” — New York Times
“Candid and intimate. . . . A detailed and searing portrait of
a family facing the inevitability of death.” — Publishers
Weekly
“[An] engrossing story of a daughter’s love, told with brutal
honesty.” — Booklist
“Mulgrew has written a finely detailed memoir that brings [her
parents], ever so briefly and only on its pages, back to life. . .
. It’s the achingly unique particulars of the relationships between
the author, her five brothers and sisters, and their parents that
make this book stand out.” — Providence Journal
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