My Mother's Song: A Memoir

Ellen was ten years old in 1967, the year her mother shot and killed her father. Her mother was arrested and charged with murder, leaving young Ellen and her siblings terrified and bewildered. After all, shouldn’t it be clear to everyone her father had left no choice? Someone was going to die that day, and her mom had made sure it wasn’t one of them. Years later, Ellen realized the mother she knew and loved also died that day. Afterwards, little remained of the college graduate, the accomplished pianist, and the self-confident marine who had once appeared in the pages of Life magazine. In My Mother’s Song, Ellen Gee shares her painful story in order to recapture that other woman, to breathe life into her once more.