Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask

With the trademark humor and lovable spirit that infused her first memoir,But Enough About Me,Jancee Dunn turns to her evolving relationship, as a so-called adult, with her parents and family In her early forties, Jancee Dunn began to wonder why she still felt like a thirteen-year-old around her family. Talking to her friends, she found the same was true for themdespite successful jobs, marriages, and families of their own. Do we ever really grow up, she wonders? Why is the slow, sticky process of prying ourselves free from our parents and childhoods so difficult? In her new memoir, Dunn examines the phenomenon, with scenes ranging from a "haunted Savannah" tour gone wrong to a visit to a tattoo parlor with her sixty-ish mother, who is dying to get a raven inked on her wrist. Finally, Dunn and her sisters arrange to visit the house where they grew up, a bittersweet but comic experience that answers her questions and puts her at peace with her parentsuntil the next tattoo parlor visit, at least.

JANCEE DUNN is the author of the novel Don’t You Forget About Me and the memoir But Enough About Me. A former writer at Rolling Stone, she was a correspondent for Good Morning America and an MTV veejay. She has written for The New York Times, GQ, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, writer Tom Vanderbilt.