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Praise for Ariel Gore

The End of Eve

Ariel Gore has blown my mind twice before with her previous books on motherhood and happiness â now she's stunned me a third time with
The End of Eve.
This is the story of the world's most insane, beautiful mother who was supposed to die in one year â but nearly killed her entire family and staff before she was through.

SUSIE BRIGHT
, Author of
Mommy's Little Girl: Susie Bright on Sex, Motherhood, Pornography, and Cherry Pie

Dorothy Parker famously said “there are no happy endings,” but Ariel Gore's sweet, tough, elegant account of her mother's last days is absurdly happy â if happy means inhabiting life in all its mess, distress, beauty, and occasional hilarity. A near-perfect gem.

KAREN KARBO
, author of
Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

The depth of insight of
The End of Eve
often took my breath away. Not to mention its drop-dead humor, the sadness, and the rage. Ariel Gore's memoir is in its essence a how-to book. In the face of death, our grief, how to breathe, how to be brave, how to be funny, how to be authentic. How to make it through. But most of all: tenderness â how Ariel puts human tenderness on the page is an act of poetry damn close to sublime.

TOM SPANBAUER
, author of
In The City of Shy Hunters

Ariel Gore takes some of the heaviest life work â caring for a difficult, terminally ill parent â and somehow through her writing transforms it into a funny, interesting, moving experience. Her work is like origami in that way â capable of changing one solid thing into something entirely different, and beautiful, because of the way she looks at the world. Totally unique, and very inspiring.

CORIN TUCKER
, Sleater-Kinney

How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead

One of the snappiest, most useful books a writer for hire is likely to read.

DAVID PITT
,
Booklist

Hip Mama
Magazine

It's the quality of the writing that sets
Hip Mama
apart.

THE NEW YORKER

Hip Mama
is considered one of the best zines out there.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Fun and irreverent.

USA TODAY

Ariel Gore's transformation from globetrotting teenager to the hippest of mamas reads like a movie script about a Gen-X slacker following her bliss to unlikely success.

UTNE READER

Atlas of the Human Heart

Oregon Book Award finalist

Gore's adventures make absorbing reading.

BETH LEISTENSNIDER
,
Booklist

A terrific and important book. Ariel Gore rips through the cultural wasteland of the 1980s with fierce desire and female angst, taking us on a wild ride. Impossible to put down.

CORIN TUCKER
, Sleater-Kinney

Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

Thoughtful, funny, and inspiring, Gore is a down-to-earth guide to the elusive human quest for happiness.

JUNE SAWYERS
,
Booklist

Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City

As rough-hewn and gorgeous as the city that inspired it, this anthology breaks queer ground as it shows us that everywhere is Portland but Portland is its own special place, home to queers seeking and finding home, from the city itself to each others arms.

DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
, author of
Kissing Dead Girls

The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show

Booksense
pick

This novel is a miracle â deliciously subversive and deeply spiritual.

GAYLE BRANDEIS
, author of
Fruitflesh
and
The Book of Dead Birds

An affecting tale about the search for home, connection, and authenticity.

CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI
, author of
The Saint of Lost Things

Piercing and insightful, Gore's first novel limns one woman's complicated relationship with her religion and her personal faith.

KRISTINE HUNTLEY
, Booklist

With a dash of mysticism mixed with the underground freak show scene, Ariel Gore creates a fascinating, inventive, and modern odyssey.

BETH LISICK
, author of
Everybody in the Pool

Punctuating the narrative with stories of the saints, Gore depicts Frankka's religious reawakening with both irreverence and respect for tradition and faith.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A bold and imaginative story.

MICHELLE TEA
, author of
Rose of No Man's Land

Breeder: Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers

Forget books that drone on about what is considered ânormal.' Scrap guides and articles that tell you how it's done...

SPIKE GILLESPIE
, author of
All the Wrong Men
and
One Perfect Boy: A Memoir

The women who gathered in my mother's kitchen when I was a child weren't free. The women whose voices are gathered in this remarkable collection are â and that's a difference worth celebrating and a development that must be documented.

DAN SAVAGE
, author of
American Savage

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gore, Ariel, 1970â

The End of Eve/Ariel Gore.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-9893604-1-8

1.
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Parent and adult child.

2.
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Mothers and daughters.

3.
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Aging parents.

4.
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Mothers â Death â Psychological aspects.

I. Title.

HQ755.86.G67 2014

306.874âDC23