My mother, my madness – Colleen Higgs

Description

A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered. My mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs’s diary of her mother’s last 10 years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of insight – a rich and moving story which unfolds through its characters like a novel.

Colleen Higgs is a writer and publisher. She founded Modjaji Books as an independent press in 2007, and to date has published over 150 titles. She is also a writing teacher who has taught creative writing for 25 years.
Higgs is the author of two collections of poetry, a short story collection and a memoir. Her writings have been widely anthologised, most recently in Michael Chapman’s New Century of South African Poetry and in The Only Magic We Know.