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Author:
Brian Morton
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Date:
April 12, 2022
Tasha Morton is a force of nature: a brilliant educator who's left her mark on generations of students--and also a Jewish mother extraordinaire, intrusive, chaotic, oppressively devoted, and irrepressible. For decades, her son Brian has kept her at a self-protective distance, but when her health begins to fail, he knows it's on him to step up and assume responsibility for her care. Even so, he's not prepared for what awaits him.
What The Reviewers Say
If the dead are never safely dead, and the past never past, the beauty of Tasha is in Morton’s very struggle to get Tasha right on the page, once and for all. With humility and grace, he tells us that he has failed his mother by not seeing her as a full and complete person, one with great courage, complexity and strength. But it is a gift of mature adulthood — and perhaps the work of writing memoir — to see our parents as people who exist outside of their centrality in our lives.
[A] bracing account.
... superb.
... a beautifully rendered story of filial love that paints a vivid portrait of both its subject and its author.
