Janice Page — Year of the Water Horse: a memoir
Warm and witty memoir exploring the complex relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters, with novelist A.M. Homes.
Date & Time at 3:00 PM EST
Location Politics and Prose Washington, US
Organizer Politics and Prose
Why we picked this
The mother-in-law relationship is one of the most universally experienced and least honestly examined dynamics in family life. Page writes about it with the kind of warmth and wit that makes uncomfortable truths feel like relief.
Janice Page’s memoir Year of the Water Horse takes on territory that most family memoirs avoid: the intricate, loaded relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters. It is a story about the families we inherit through marriage and the negotiations — spoken and unspoken — that hold them together or pull them apart.
In conversation with A.M. Homes, whose own fiction and memoir have explored family dysfunction with unflinching honesty, Page discusses what it means to write about people you love when the truth is complicated.
Free event at Politics and Prose, Connecticut Avenue.