Marcia Gay Harden is an actress of the stage, screen, and television. She is also an author, an advocate for Alzheimer’s research, a gardener, and a potter. She lives in Los Angeles and New York with her three children, two cats, and a dog. The fish stays in LA. Learn more from TheOfficialMarciaGayHarden.com and follow her on Twitter @MGH_8.
“A fiercely loving and tender tribute to Marcia Gay Harden’s
mother, remembering for her and for us what Alzheimer’s has stolen,
filling those darkened holes with compassion, acceptance, beauty,
and love. I savored every page and didn’t want it to
end.”— Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of
Still Alice and Every Note Played
“What a surprise to find that Marcia Gay Harden is as talented a
writer as she is an actress. She has given us a heartbreakingly
beautiful account of a devoted daughter coping with her lovely
mother’s slow slide into Alzheimer’s. The book is like Marcia Gay
herself – smart, charming, strong, funny, and vulnerable. Among
other things, her account of Oscar night when she won for Best
Supporting Actress made me laugh and cry at the same time. An
elegantly-written, intelligent, and enjoyable read.”—Ellen Burstyn,
Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling
author of Lessons in Becoming Myself
“Honest, courageous, and often very funny, The Seasons of My
Mother is an unforgettable testament to the unique endurance
of the mother-daughter bond. I loved this book.”—Rob Lowe, Emmy
Award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author of
Stories I Only Tell My Friends and Love Life
"From the start of this book there is something facing a time and
place new to me, speaking a language Marcia is teaching me to
understand: I promise you, you have not been here before. If
motherhood has a destiny, it is the beautiful life on this road, in
these fields, on these pages, where a great actor has told us a
true story about her mother and the intelligence and happiness
surrounding it."—Alvin Sargent, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
of Julia and Ordinary People
"Praise, love, and honor all play roles in this respectful, highly
affectionate memoir about a spirited mother-daughter
relationship."—Kirkus Reviews
"Marcia Gay Harden makes a literary statement with this moving
story of her relationship with her mother, who was recently
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s."—Entertainment Weekly
“Poignant, beautiful . . . . Replete with emotionally resonant
scenes, humor, and tales of Harden’s own journey as an actor, The
Seasons of My Mother is both inspirational and devastating, a
touching tribute to a remarkable woman.”—Booklist
“The devotion and heartbreak of a loving mother-daughter
relationship are captured with affection and precision in this
graceful memoir. Harden delivers a love letter to her mother,
in which the extraordinary elements of her ordinary life shine
through.”—Publishers Weekly
“The Oscar-winning actress showcases lyrical writing in this
heartbreaking memoir.”— Entertainment Weekly
“Throughout this lush and lyrical memoir, Harden aptly demonstrates
how her mother is ‘living’ with the disease and not ‘suffering’
from it….On every page of this moving, reverent and gorgeously
written book, she has resplendently succeeded.”—
Bookreporter.com
“[F]lowers and their meaning run through this intergenerational
story, organized around the seasons and the blooms they bring to
mind, Marcia’s childhood and her sometimes-spiky relationship with
her parents. The description of her mother’s drift into the limbo
of Alzheimer’s will be familiar to anyone dealing with a family
member who has dementia, but the author sees through what has been
lost….There is beauty here, and tragedy….But as an actor, Harden
uses the persuasive strength of her voice to inhabit every
line.”— New York Times
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