In ‘The Witch’s Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness That Bound Us,’ Fink reckons with her mother’s mental illness and addiction, conjuring her own healing.
These memories, from her harrowing childhood in Alabama to the booming music scene in places like Athens, Georgia and Omaha, Nebraska, center not on herself, but Fink’s frenetic mother, who she describes as suffering from borderline personality disorder and alcoholism.
It is kind of ironic that I don’t think she really knew that she was basically handing me a train ticket: “I’m going to take this beat up guitar and get out of here with it.” Who would’ve thought? Amid your rising success with Azure Ray, from touring the country and Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone features to dinner parties with Courtney Love, your mother was still wreaking havoc on your life in the background.
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