In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, losses that occurred within twenty-four hours of each other. The stunned public turned for solace to Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, who somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief.
The son of "America's Sweethearts" Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Todd grew up amid the glamor, wealth, and pretense of Hollywood, but managed to remain grounded thanks to his funny, loving, no-nonsense mother and remained close to his sister through both her meteoric rise to stardom and her personal struggles. Now, Todd shares his memories of Debbie and Carrie with deeply personal stories, from his earliest years to those last unfathomable days. With thirty-two pages of never-before-seen photos and memorabilia from his family's private archives, Todd's book is a love letter to a sister and a mother, and a gift to their countless fans.
"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
"Fisher's tribute to these larger-than-life creative ladies is a down-to-earth portrait of a loving mother and supportive sister." —Booklist
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Publisher's Weekly
June 4, 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. -
Booklist
June 1, 2018
Memoirs written by the children of celebrities almost always make for fascinating reading, but when the author is both son and brother of two of Hollywood's most iconic stars, there is twice the potential for compelling storytelling. Fisher's mom, of course, was the multitalented Debbie Reynolds; his sister, actress and author Carrie Fisher (The Princess Diarist, 2016), achieved cult status as Princess Leia in Star Wars. When Debbie died less than a day after Carrie's sudden death, the world could hardly comprehend the loss of one legend, much less two. As the avowed caretaker and champion for both his mother and sister from the time he was a child, Fisher was fiercely protective of their lives and legacies. Recounting youthful high jinks with Carrie and the reversals of fortune that plagued Debbie's postfilm career, Fisher shares an intimate journey into the personal and professional challenges each woman faced in her own inimitable way. 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.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.) -
Library Journal
August 1, 2018
The son of movie darlings Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, producer/director Fisher had a lot to contend with in 2016 when his mother and his sister, the formidable Carrie Fisher, died within days of each other. Personal stories spanning the lives of his, ahem, girls; with a 125,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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