I've got a book review up at WVFC
reviewed by Elizabeth Willse
The title of Jo Maeder's honest and sweetly funny memoir refers to the three years she spent caring for her aging mother in Greensboro, N.C. In her late 30s, Maeder gave up a successful career as a New York City pop radio DJ in order to care for her mother, Mama Jo. Mama Jo had lived alone for decades, her house crammed with an extensive doll collection, hoarded knicknacks and junk. Though the possibility of Maeder's move to Greensboro was daunting for Mama Jo, Maeder and her brother, Arthur, as Maeder describes it, Mama Jo has moments of sweetness and whimsy even as some of her eccentricities try the siblings' patience. Mama displays a pithy talent for one-liners about everything from sushi to long-winded local clergy.
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