If it's not one thing, it's your mother - Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a
flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing
career as a comedienne and performer, ample friends and admirers, but
what she didn't have was a child and, after a string of non-committal
boyfriends, she decided to adopt alone.Mulan was one-and-a-half
years old when she met her new mother, and every bit as feisty as the
Disney character (whom she was emphatically not named for). If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother is
the story of this unexpected mother-daughter pair who eventually
became
- to Julia's astonishment and in a hilariously unconventional
way - a
mother-daughter-father trio.From being mistaken for her
daughter's grandmother to her tragically short-lived belief that
knitting a man a sweater will make him commit to you, Julia's memoir is
at once hilarious, poignant, provocative and wise. It is a story of
adoption, Hollywood, dogs, death, marriage, Santa Claus, race and
religion, the birds, the bees (and the frogs.) and everything else
along
the way.