Product Description

A small, greenery-shrouded home in Los Angeles serves as backdrop to this stunning drama of a mother and daughter who grapple with their volatile relationship and with life-threatening health crises in an adversarial system.Spanning half a century, this mother-daughter story inspires with drama, humor and pivotal insights into one of a woman s most important relationships. The book also reveals what you must know about our abusive nursing care system.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5165589 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

About the Author
At age twelve, Alexa Wolf won first place for her age group in a poetry contest sponsored by the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom. Her later work includes stories for the L.A. WEEKLY and an article for the C.G. Jung Institute journal, PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. She also won a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony and is currently working on her Writers Certificate at the UCLA Writers Extension Program. While misdiagnosed for HIV/AIDS, she appeared on numerous television and radio programs including OPRAH, THE TODAY SHOW and a Dan Rather special. Alexa lives in Los Angeles with her bird, Captain Kirk the Parakeet.

Customer Reviews

A moving mother and daughter story
With short chapters, each ending leading the reader eagerly to the next, this is an account of a troubled and complex mother daughter relationship. The author writes bravely about the painful feelings she felt toward her mother and her mostly absent father. An especially interesting aspect of the story is the how Alexa in spite of her own health problems deals with the medical industry ( and it is an industry) while her mother's health declines. A quick read, deep, thought provoking, and well worth the reader's time. A lovely memoir.

A story for Mother's and Daughter's
My Mother's House has a message that anyone thinking about putting their aging parent into the health care system should read. Alexa tells her tale with honesty and shares the pain of what happened to her mother with no reservations.

Any mother/daughter combo that has ever suffered serious problems in their relationship will also sympathize with Alexa's life story. It's not easy to have the person you love the most in the world also be the person you hate the most in the world - and that person is your mother.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexa (which you can find on my blog, check amazon profile for the full interview) and just like her novel, she was honest, witty and heartbreaking all at once. I will honestly say that this is a hard book to read because the nature of the material is so saddening but it really gives you something to think about. I have a relationship with my own mother that is turbulent at times (which we both admit to!) and this story really touched us and reminded us that no matter where you've been in life - you can always make amends.

A Harrowing True Story of One Woman's Struggle With the US Health Care System
This memoir is a tale of what is wrong with the American Health Care Industry. Alexa, and her mother struggle with a shocking lack of resources in battling the ill health of mother and daughter. A continuation of Michael Moore's movie, "Sicko". This will once again show us why this country badly needs affordable universal health care.