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May It Have a Happy Ending
- A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers
- Narrated by: Minelle Mahtani
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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May It Have a Happy Ending
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Publisher's Summary
A searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice.
Minelle Mahtani had taken a leap of faith. A new mother in a new life, she'd moved across the country for love, and soon found herself facing the exciting and terrifying prospect of hosting her own radio show. But as she began to find her place in the majority white newsroom, she was handed devastating news: her Iranian mother had been diagnosed with tongue cancer.
Just as Minelle was finding her voice, her mother was losing hers.
What does it mean to amplify the voices of others while the stories of your ancestors are being buried in your mother's mouth? Why do we cling to superstition and luck when we’ve lost all faith in healing those we love? And how do we juggle bearing the burden of looking after an ill parent when we are trying to parent our own children?
In exquisitely lyrical and inventive prose, Mahtani recounts the experience so many of us recognize: a life calibrated through calculating when to speak and when to be silent in a world that feels like it forces us to be broken.
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What the critics say
"May It Have a Happy Ending stilled me with its lyrical voice. A powerful account of personal struggles and loss, it is also a book that energizes and nourishes, a book radiant with loving intimacy. Minelle Mahtani is a writer of inspiring courage, wisdom and talent."—David Chariandy, bestselling and award-winning author of Brother and I've Been Meaning To Tell You
"A breathtaking mix of memoir, generational healing and invitations to examine our commitment to social justice. Through her gift of storytelling, Minelle Mahtani successfully elicits understanding around how the body is intricately woven with our ancestral history and lived experience. May It Have a Happy Ending speaks for many of us who have not had a voice and holds a vision for a new way—one that I am deeply grateful for."—Asha Frost, Indigenous Healer and bestselling author of You Are the Medicine
"It's clear from Mahtani's prose that she has spent time in front of a microphone: Her voice is perfectly calibrated to draw you in, tell you a story, and—like the most skilled interviewers—crack you open. The title of the book invokes an ending, but by the time I got there, I didn't want it to be over. I was too beguiled by the sharp, funny self-analysis of Mahtani's work as a radio host; her probing reflections on her bond with her mother; the tension and tenderness with which she recounts her professional rise as her mother's health declines. I tore through it. May It Have a Happy Ending delivers a cathartic experience with incredible vocal range."—Tajja Isen, author of Some of My Best Friends