My Mother's Keeper - A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia (Paperback)

My Mother's Keeper is a daughter's wrenching story of growing up with a schizophrenic mother who drifted in and out of her life like a fading fairy princess. By the time Tara Holley turned 17, she had become her mother's guardian, bent on rescuing the shambling street person her mother had become, and turning her back into the beautiful, lively woman she remembered. In this dramatic and inspiring memoir. Tara recounts her struggle over the years, reckoning with the pain and denial that have permeated her family, and with the elusive hope of a cure. Above all, My Mother's Keeper is a keenly moving exploration of the mother-daughter bond -- of how Tara learned to balance her mother's needs with her own, and how she finally came to terms with her family legacy after the birth of her own child.