DON’T CALL ME MAMA

About the Book

One night, as Mama bathed me, I asked why she didn’t paint her nails. “Who have you seen wearing nail polish?” she asked. “The blond lady Daddy takes me to see on Sundays.” After my parents were divorced, I overheard Grandma say, “Yetta, your baggage will hamper you from finding another husband.” So as Mama bathed me, she said, “Don’t call me Mama.” Hearing this was hurtful. My father hadn’t taken me with him when he left. Now, I felt Mama no longer wanted me. I was four years old. Who would take care of me? It was a desperate, sometimes devastating journey through the depths of despair I lived daily as a preschooler. Then it was a tumultuous adolescence with my malicious grandmother. How did I find the courage to survive the journey through these challenges? You will find it an exciting yet uplifting reading experience.

About the Author

Maxine Sue Feller was born during the difficult days of the Depression in the early thirties. Raised as the only child of a dysfunctional family, a narcissistic mother, and a demanding, self-centered grandmother; she nevertheless emerged as a successful schoolteacher, writer, and artist. The mother of three children, a wife, and a subsequent widow, she provided her family with the strength and integrity so lacking in the days of her childhood and adolescence. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Ms. Feller is an accomplished author. Her autobiography, The Mask of Love, was a finalist in the tenth annual San Diego Book Awards. Two years later, she was accepted as a member in the prestigious National League of American Pen Women. Maxine Sue Feller is the published author of The Mask of Love, What Doesn’t Kill You, A Man in My House, Letting Go Is Hard to Do, Comfortable in My Skin, A Renaissance Wife, Changing Course, You Can’t Go Home, and The Time after Happily Ever After.