JULY 2018 - AudioFile
Here is a powerfully moving memoir for any fan of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Todd provides an insightful perspective on his life with both his mother and sister. Throughout his narration of the audiobook, we get a look at their lives both private and public. Most of the anecdotes are told in a humorous tone, and all the stories demonstrate the family’s strong bond. The emotions that Todd fills his narration with reflect the love of a son and brother who adored his “girls.” This memoir reflects Todd’s close relationship with both women. C.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly
06/04/2018
Fisher, son of Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and younger brother of actress Carrie Fisher, offers a frequently hilarious and too often heartbreaking story of life with the women he called “my girls.” As a member of a troubled family who, in his sister’s phrasing, “wore our underwear on the outside of our clothes,” Fisher candidly portrays a lifetime of crises, beginning when his father, singer Eddie Fisher, left Reynolds for Elizabeth Taylor only weeks after Fisher’s birth. Reynolds’s next two husbands both gambled and stole from her, leaving her millions of dollars in debt. The peacemaker in the family, Fisher dealt with his sister’s mood swings, later diagnosed as symptoms of bipolar disorder, and with the incessant competition between mother and daughter. Even as Fisher carved out his own life, pursuing a career making television shows and documentaries and becoming a born-again Christian, his mother and sister’s needs dominated his life until their deaths in 2016, just one day apart. More than a Hollywood tell-all, Fisher’s memoir of a family’s love and endurance under trying and sometimes outrageous circumstances is a clear-eyed tribute to lives lived to the fullest. (June)
From the Publisher
A frequently hilarious and too often heartbreaking story of life with the women he called “my girls”.… More than a Hollywood tell-all, Fisher’s memoir of a family’s love and endurance under trying and sometimes outrageous circumstances is a clear-eyed tribute to lives lived to the fullest. — Publishers Weekly
Poignant and joyous, genuine and reverential, Fisher’s tribute to these larger-than-life creative ladies is a down-to-earth portrait of a loving mother and supportive sister. — - Booklist
Booklist
Poignant and joyous, genuine and reverential, Fisher’s tribute to these larger-than-life creative ladies is a down-to-earth portrait of a loving mother and supportive sister.
Booklist
Poignant and joyous, genuine and reverential, Fisher’s tribute to these larger-than-life creative ladies is a down-to-earth portrait of a loving mother and supportive sister.
JULY 2018 - AudioFile
Here is a powerfully moving memoir for any fan of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Todd provides an insightful perspective on his life with both his mother and sister. Throughout his narration of the audiobook, we get a look at their lives both private and public. Most of the anecdotes are told in a humorous tone, and all the stories demonstrate the family’s strong bond. The emotions that Todd fills his narration with reflect the love of a son and brother who adored his “girls.” This memoir reflects Todd’s close relationship with both women. C.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
