Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back, by Marianne Leone

This book spoke to me concerning my relationship with my mother, although my mother and I are very different from Ms. Leone and her mother, in culture and in temperament. I enjoyed reading this from cover to cover; I smiled, laughed, and cried. She did not hold back from telling the hard truths about her mother's background and experiences, and their relationship as it changed through the years.

An Early Reviewer book from the publisher, Beacon Press, through LibraryThing. Received on April 12, 2017 

High On Arrival, by Mackenzie Phillips

Read and reviewed in July, 2012, released later

Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and star of TV show One Day at a Time, led a horrifying private life. Victim of on-again off-again abandonment and neglect, and taught to do drugs by the father she loved so much, her troubled life was inevitable. Even more disturbing was the incestuous relationship between Mackenzie and her father. In spite of all the bleakness and darkness of her early years, she was able to forgive her father on his deathbed, and to finally overcome (after three trials) her drug addiction.