Mentiras sobre mi madre

Daniela Dröscher narrates what it is like to grow up in a family where everything revolves around a single theme: the mother's weight. Is that beautiful, headstrong and unpredictable woman fat? Does she have to lose weight at all costs? Yes, she has to. It is her husband who decides. Something that women have to put up with every day. Lies About My Mother is two things at the same time: it is the story of a childhood in Germany during the 1980s, in a family increasingly dominated by the father's obsession with his mother's overweight, whom he considers responsible for everything that he cannot achieve: a promotion, a better social position or recognition among the townspeople. But the book is also a review of the events of that time seen from today's perspective. What actually happened? What was hidden, what was lied about? And what does all this tell us about the general context, about a society that, whether we like it or not, constantly influences us?