Not the Mother I Remember: A Memoir
Written by Amber Lea Starfire
Narrated by Emily Beresford
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About this audiobook
Amber Lea Starfire
Amber Lea Starfire is an author, editor, and creative writing teacher whose passion is helping others tell their stories. Her most recent books include Not the Mother I Remember: A Memoir — finalist for both the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the 2013-2014 Sarton Women’s Literary Awards — and Week by Week: A Year’s Worth of Journaling Prompts & Meditations. Amber is also co-editor of the award-winning anthology, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the '60s & '70s, and her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Visit her online classes website and blog at writingthroughlife.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mother –daughter relationships are complex under the best of circumstances. In her stunning memoir, Not the Mother I Remember, Amber Lea Starfire details the complexities of her own relationship with her mother through her dead mother’s journals and letters. What she discovers is both heartbreaking and transformative as she slowly unveils the meaning of her mother’s words and reflects on the perception of the mother she thought she knew. With raw honesty and vivid prose, she conveys the heartache and confusion of a child who craves her mother’s attention. As a reader, I felt her childhood anguish yet I was also mesmerized by her mother’s spirit of adventure and independence. What mother earns a pilot’s license and flies her two children all over the country, making sure to land in each state? As in life, the characters are multidimensional, each with their flaws and redeeming features. Starfire portrays her characters realistically and makes them believable. I could admire her mother’s spunk while also wishing she could have been more present to her children.What resulted from these painful revelations about her mother is a deeper understanding of a woman trying to find her place. It is through facing the pain of the past that Starfire is able to reach a level of acceptance and forgiveness toward her mother and in doing so, she sets herself free.This is a beautifully written, powerful memoir about one woman’s heroic journey into the past to find freedom for herself.