what readers say

 

"How these women touched me! Driven and real, Making an Exit hurtles toward its truths with uncommon feeling and honesty."

-Gish Jen, author of The Love Wife

"Unflinchingly honest, open-hearted, and funny, this is a work of passionate intelligence and deep humanity."

-Joyce Antler, author of The Journey Home

"Fuchs' mother is larger than life in both her salad days and in her days of word salad. And Making an Exit overflows with life—its sorrows and surprises, its follies and joys."

-Anne Basting, Director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

"Making an Exit is a rare and wonderful rollercoaster of a book, tender and touching, hilarious and high-spirited—a moving portrait of a daughter and mother that is fiercely intelligent, ineffably sad, and, finally, transcendent."

-Kathleen Woodward, author of Aging and its discontents