Philadelphia’s Alexandra Auder, daughter of Viva, a Warhol superstar, and Michel Auder, a French filmmaker, has penned an ode to bohemian Manhattan and her mother in her decades-in-the-making memoir, “Don’t Call Me Home,” writes Penelope Green for The New York Times.

Auder, who spent her childhood in the Chelsea Hotel and later became famous online as a yoga parodist, was also the star of a book written by her mother, “The Baby,” lauded by Rolling Stone as a better written and funnier female rendition of “On the Road.”

This time, the same story is being told by its main character, who recently turned 52. The title was inspired by both a Thomas Wolfe novel and a line from a Nico song.

The book is an ode to a vanished world, but the main focus is her mother, who was a force of nature and had no qualms about dressing down cops and taxi drivers, among many others.

Auder is not certain what pushed her to write a memoir.

“Maybe it was some storytelling gene,” she said, “or the knowledge that there was something both distinctly idiosyncratic and universal about my life with Viva.”

Read more about Alexandra Auder in The New York Times.

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Terry gross interviews Alexandra Auder earlier this week.