Editors' Picks: What We're Reading This Month

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This illuminating, hilarious memoir about life with a troubled mother is, oddly, a reminder of how much our children love us, even when we don't deserve it. Storm Large (her given name, blame the crazy mom) went through teenage years of anorexia, punk-rock rebellion and hard-core (and graphically rendered) drug addiction, then grew up to be a successful Portland, OR, musician and contestant on Rock Star: Supernova. She's a

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Photo by: Free Press

This illuminating, hilarious memoir about life with a troubled mother is, oddly, a reminder of how much our children love us, even when we don't deserve it. Storm Large (her given name, blame the crazy mom) went through teenage years of anorexia, punk-rock rebellion and hard-core (and graphically rendered) drug addiction, then grew up to be a successful Portland, OR, musician and contestant on Rock Star: Supernova. She's a charming, fluid and very funny writer, even when she's telling us the saddest things. I would recommend this to any mother of girls.
-Valerie Isakova, Parenting Editor

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