When I Married My Mother: A Daughters Search for What Really Matters -- and How She Found it Caring for Mama Jo written by Jo Maeder

 

Jo Maeder was an ambitious DJ in New York City when she did the unthinkable: she moved to the Bible Belt to look after her frail, estranged mother, who had long been a source of intense frustration. Maeder’s tumultuous journey from simply living with “Mama Jo” to learning to truly love her not only changed Maeder’s life, but also was the catalyst for pulling her long-fractured family together again. Though often rocky, their “marriage” was a triumph that taught her about life, faith, and what really matters.

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Jo Maeder was a DJ on New York’s and Z100, and has written for the New York Times and More magazine. She divides her time between New York and North Carolina.