false 1609454 9 <i>Her Last Death</i> begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any daughter would rush the thousands of miles to her mother's bedside. But Susanna cannot bring herself to go. Her courageous memoir explains why. Glamorous, charismatic and a compulsive liar, Susanna's mother seduced everyone who entered her orbit. With outrageous behavior and judgment tinged by drug use, she taught her child the art of sex and the benefits of lying. Susanna struggled to break out of this compelling world, determined, as many daughters are, not to become her mother. Sonnenberg mines tender and startling memories as she writes of her fierce resolve to forge her independence, to become a woman capable of trust and to be a good mother to her own children. <i>Her Last Death</i> is riveting, disarming and searingly beautiful. 2991085 1 1 2008 Her Last Death total:1071|5:103|4:354|3:399|2:158|1:57| 1071 3501 1873 301 2 9 false false Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 14:26:13 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 08:04:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 4 false false Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 13:19:01 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 07:32:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 22 06:23:57 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 26 08:29:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 15:11:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 12:33:43 -0800 2008 I was expecting a Running With Scissors memoir, equip with drugs and sex and cr...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jul 09 11:28:26 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:05:41 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 09 11:28:26 -0700 2009
My mother, while not a drug addict or as overtly promiscious, rival...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 05:32:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 12:00:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 10:12:13 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 16:48:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 21:10:46 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 21:21:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:38:06 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:48:16 -0700 2009
In the first part of the book I felt sympathy for the daughter/writer. But as the book continued it seemed to evolve into just a ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 20:39:19 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 18:44:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 21:44:20 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 08:50:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 10:12:10 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 12:31:26 -0800 2009
Why do people do the things they do? Why do MOTHERS do things that hurt their children irrevocably? WHY do children feel they have to write it all down and share it with MILLIONS of people? I don't know the answer...more...]]> 2 0 false true Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 09:00:05 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 10:59:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 16:13:35 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 16:14:17 -0800 2009
This is a strange book about the coming of age of Susanna Sonnenberg. She and her sister were raised by a mother who lacked any kind of judgmen...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 22 16:46:36 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 04:29:47 -0700 2009
From dust jacket:

"HER LAST DEATH begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accide...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 17 19:14:25 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:16:09 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 14:09:08 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 09:00:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 20:21:39 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 20:21:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:42:30 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:42:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 17:46:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 19:30:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1609454