 "My Mother's Keeper" chronicled a difficult mother–daughter relationship and depicted scenes of her mother as an overbearing alcoholic.Several of Davis's friends commented that the depictions of events were inaccurate and others with first-hand knowledge vehemently disagreed with the allegations.In her 1987 memoirs "This 'N That", Davis wrote a "letter" to her daughter in which she alleged inaccuracies in Hyman's book.