Engagingly written as a journal of fond memories, life experiences,
lessons learned, and tragedies overcome, this is the story of the family
that gave the world actress Jennifer Aniston. Written by her mother,
Nancy Aniston, this tender, poetic, and charming memoir represents a
healing exercise, and most importantly serves as an example of how to
cope with and understand estrangement between parent and child.During
the meteoric rise of Jennifer's popularity on the hit television comedy
Friends, Nancy and her daughter had a misunderstanding imposed on them
by a tabloid TV report. In the three years since they last spoke, Nancy
learned that separation from grown children is a national epidemic and
that scores of parents suffer the same feelings of pain, guilt, and
shame. This knowledge inspired Nancy Aniston to record family memories
in this compelling volume, "and in the process of detailed retrospection
a miraculous healing took place."Nancy chronicles her own childhood of
poverty, abandonment, failed marriages, and the difficult early years as
a single mother. She recalls Jennifer's early love for the theater, the
therapists, career managers, and hangers-on who endangered family bonds
as she guided her daughter through the exciting, sometimes
disappointing, stages of an acting career that came to realize
phenomenal success.While refusing the lure of celebrity gossip, Nancy
Aniston strives to secure her story's inherent dignity, hoping it will
be helpful to those trying to overcome their own childhood trauma,
fallout from divorce, single-parenting issues, and the "dark hole of
child/parent estrangement."
