01618cam a2200337 i 4500 285460098 TxAuBib 20170218120000.0 160122s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016934470 9781631520952 pbk. 1631520954 pbk. TxAuBib rda Rough, Joan Z.,. Scattering Ashes [TP] : a Memoir of Letting Go / by Joan Z. Rough. Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2016. ©2016. 236 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother’s health declines, Joan Rough invites her to move in with her. Rough longs to be the “good daughter,” helping her narcissistic mother face the reality of her coming death. But when repressed memories of childhood abuse by her mother arise, Rough is filled with deep resentment and hatred toward the woman who birthed her, and her dream of mending their tattered relationship shatters. Seven years later, when her mother dies, she is left with a plastic bag of her mother’s ashes and a diagnosis of PTSD. What will she do with them? 20170218. Rough, Joan Z. Mothers and daughters Biography. Authors Biography. Cancer Patients United States Biography. Bloggers United States Biography. Handicraft Biography. Autobiographies.