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Michelle Moran is also the author of Cleopatra's Daughter. 02 James by Percival Everett In James , Percival James is secretly teaching other enslaved people to read; sneaking to delve into the library of books Percival Everett is also the author of Erasure , Assumption , Wounded , The Trees , and other books. path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young single mother father; she loses two roommates due to the baby's crying; she receives little practical help from her mother

In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear produces a vastly different boy, a significantly shaped sister Maia, drastically different paths for mother Supporting characters make easter-egg appearances in other timelines. Time I love a story that plays with time through alternate timelines, time travel, second chances, or other

She works alongside her family, also caring for the plantation owners' daughter Violet and gaining cursory Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack father died long ago, and Lizzie just couldn't stand to leave the last country where they saw their mother When Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the You can find my reviews of other World War II-focused books here , and you can also check out my review

I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery, set in a 1975 Adirondack summer camp where the young camper daughter Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other For other books that take a sympathetic, darkly playful view of a villain, check out Hench and Starter She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a refuge for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women spending moments with those lost to us) or evil (creating a whirlwind of negative feeling that shapes others I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person.

the memoir from actress Jennette McCurdy about being raised by a manipulative, emotionally unstable mother Jennette became a child actress at 6 in order to please her mother, pushing down her own anxiety and disinclination to be the center of attention--and eventually committing to her mother's idea of "calorie Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young daughter make for an uncomfortable read.

small town, where tragedy in the form of evil white men took their father from them and left their mother The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman. months in the life of an extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter , a spunky and fantastic granddaughter Gussie, a daughter with another grandchild on the way, a deadbeat She is facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life,

I'm reading Virginia Evans's charming epistolary novel The Correspondent ; and I'm listening to Karin Slaughter's Anyhoo, I feel like this book and I have been circling each other since early May, and I am so delighted In Karin Slaughter's We Are All Guilty Here , Emmy Clifton is a police officer for whom the job is all So when Emmy's best friend's teen daughter Madison brushes her off, then shows up, needy and asking for Karin Slaughter is the author of approximately 25 books.

Unhoneymooners, the racy-sounding Beautiful Bastard series, and Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, among others

Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis has continued Elif Shafak is also the author of There Are Rivers in the Sky, Three Daughters of Eve, The Forty Rules of Love, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Architect's Apprentice, and many other novels.

Cordelia is careful not to upset her mother. It's just the two of them, and in their world, her mother rules. The only creature she trusts is her mother's white horse Falada, to whom she tells all of her private But, she finds, to her heartbreak, even Falada is under her mother's control. She is made to be magically "obedient" to her mother, and as such she is incapable of warning others.

In 1982, Dawn, a young mother in a fine but loveless marriage finds happiness in a socially unacceptable relationship, and the legal backlash causes her to lose custody of--and contact with--her beloved young daughter Maggie is unaware of the particular circumstances around her parents' divorce and the reason for her mother's Benjamin Rask is a ruthless, outrageously successful Wall Street tycoon, and his beloved wife Helen is the daughter relationship issues, while young Vera tries to simply make a friend at school and find her biological mother

I’m dying to know how closely Anita Abriel’s book traces the inspiring events from her mother’s incredible For my full review of this book, please see Florence Adler Swims Forever . 05 Call Your Daughter Home But she and the other characters were developed fully. Their sparks of joy are often related to their relationships to each other. For my full review, please see Call Your Daughter Home . 06 The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Donoghue

01 Tom Lake by Ann Patchett In Ann Patchett's newest novel, Tom Lake, Lara's three daughters reunite But when Lara shares the story of a life lived before her children existed, her daughters are led to consider their own lives and their relationship with their mother. State of Wonder, Run, Bel Canto, The Dutch House, The Magician's Assistant, These Precious Days, and other

in a squirrelly example of "everything is for sale," those with enough money (Mind Capital) can buy others Our unnamed narrator inherits his mother's banned memories, and he enters into her saved collection while We dip in and out of his perspective and are immersed with him in each of his mother's curated memories The novel illustrates the bravery of unassuming mothers, the way stories offer hope, and how sharing For other Bossy reviews of books about memory, check out the titles at this link .

Her mother is presented sympathetically while coming off as odd, and Lockwood herself takes on a somewhat Her mother confided her darkest secrets to young Brodeur as though she was a friend, and she drew the But the story was ultimately more about an emotionally stunted mother, her codependence on her adolescent daughter, and how the author unraveled the many smothering ties to the woman whose conditional love is a measured writer who thoughtfully considers her youth, her infatuation with and reliance on her mother

Former child actress McCurdy's account of her mother's narcissistic, harmful, abusive behavior and how Jennette became a child actress at 6 in order to please her mother, pushing down her own anxiety and disinclination to be the center of attention--and eventually committing to her mother's idea of "calorie Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young daughter make for an uncomfortable read.

Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a recently widowed young mother The MacInteers--tough yet tender mother Rai, her clever daughter Sass, playful older son Finn, and a

Phil is a supportive and relaxed dad, in contrast to Sibyl, the mother of the Samuelson clan, who isn't very patient, frequently seems irritated and even revolted by her daughters, and often makes critical set scenes of the times, and for the sprawling interconnected characters and their caring for each other

and I'm listening to a stand-alone historical fiction novel that's also a sequel, The Book Woman's Daughter the difficult relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother Bossy reviews of books that involve time travel. 03 The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman's Daughter picks up with teenage Honey, Cussy's daughter, as Cussy and her husband are Richardson writes about strong Kentuckians and their environment, and in The Book Woman's Daughter she

From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two the author of the DFZ Changeling series, the Heartstrikers series, the Crystal Calamity series, and other

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. Troubles through the point of view of Cushla, a young adult stretching her wings despite her limits--her mother's Along with her alcoholic mother and her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father They clash, hurt each other deeply, and wonder if they can ever reconcile. From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two

Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics in their drafty, her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying single-mother In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear produces a vastly different boy, a significantly shaped sister Maia, drastically different paths for mother The lonely, broken characters reach out to each other.

from Rachel Lynn Solomon; One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy, a story about a mother and daughter, which also plays with time; and The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh's contemporary fiction She is determined to take the trip to Italy she and her mother had optimistically planned during her own Italian adventures, and that her perfect mother kept secrets that shake Katy to her core. Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter

Each of them must find a way back to themselves and back to each other without their key person in After In Anna Quindlen's newest novel After Annie, the abrupt death of the titular young mother--which occurs struggles and threatens to fall apart--both individually and also to collectively fall away from each other We spend the most page time with Annie's oldest child and only daughter, Ali, as she navigates young

O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical fiction story of a precocious third daughter Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl family home in New England and travels to her mother's favorite city, London. The blurred line between fact and fiction allows the true heart of the book, a daughter's wonder, grief , joy, and yearning for her lost mother, to exist.

Cordelia is careful not to upset her mother. The only creature she trusts is her mother's white horse Falada, to whom she tells all of her private But, she finds, even Falada is under her mother's ultimate control. But the squire's sharp-eyed spinster sister Hester sees how Cordelia shrinks away from her mother and His beloved mother Leah kept Fagin in books and did what she could to keep them afloat--until her own

Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack father died long ago, and Lizzie just couldn't stand to leave the last country where they saw their mother When Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the tenacious MI5 investigator arrives at the Novises' boarding house, demanding to know everything about their mother authors included real-life figures like Alan Turing and shaped a fascinating scenario for the Novis kids' mother

From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two

Jennette became a child actress at 6 in order to please her mother, pushing down her own anxiety and disinclination to be the center of attention--and eventually committing to her mother's idea of "calorie Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young daughter make for an uncomfortable read. the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's

Hell, my mother said, and more of us marching there every day. Annis lives with her mother on a Carolina rice plantation in the years before the Civil War, and when her white enslaver--the man who raped her mother and sired Annis--turns his lascivious attention to But her troubles are about to be compounded: she's separated from her mother, sold, and forced to begin Without her mother's protection--and inspiring tales of their warrior-woman ancestors--Annis is left

There's a message about faulted mothers doing the best they can here, and there are some opportunities I often feel more invested in one timeline than the other in a dual-timeline story, and here I was more Morton is also the author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, The

Daniella Mestyanek Young grew up the daughter of high-ranking members of The Children of God cult in Her mother was forced to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical fiction story of a precocious third daughter friends and ex-spouses, live in intimate solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters Lucy's creation of an imaginary, supportive mother and her loving responses to and comfort for Lucy in

Eldest daughter Orsola Rosso is forbidden from working with glass because she's a woman. Tracy Chevalier is the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and nine other novels. 02 Bear by Julia Phillips Along with their mother, sisters Sam and Elena struggle to get by on an island off the coast of Washington They haven't seen each other since. When the two realize their feelings for each other never fizzled, and one thing leads to another (drunken

; I'm listening to Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner's memoir about growing up Korean-American, her mother , their relationship, and losing her; and I'm reading Somebody's Daughter, Ashley C. “For the rest of my life there would be a splinter in my being, stinging from the moment my mother died Zauner's story is compelling whether or not you're familiar with her or her indie band. 03 Somebody's Daughter In her memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless

young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall into a clandestine love and break each other's Raine was a wealthy orphan--one of two daughters born to a white British father and an Indian mother, situation were made known to the conservative school administrators--or if it were made plain to the other students, who are all vying to avoid formal reprimands and seem prone to sacrifice each other to the the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite Books of the Year when I read it), and other

Her mother dedicated her life to searching for her own brother, who disappeared decades ago, and enlisted daughter August in her obsessive research and in her driven questioning of even the most tangentially August needs to put some distance between her mother and herself, and if her mom has taught her anything If you like those too, you might like to check the site for other books in this vein, or check out the

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist hard not to show what you really felt if you practiced, if you closed your eyes and imagined that your daughter As Ivy's daughter Mia--who grows up in the oppressive Community, secretly and voraciously reading as lessons--I could see her responding to those, particularly because of her own origin story and her mother's Alice Hoffman is also the author of The World That We Knew and over thirty other books.

But then her mother's boyfriend and his teen daughter Tallulah move in, suddenly Junie's community theatre land more solidly, in person; on the page I found her sometimes grating with her incessant picking at others stepparent (Junie); navigation of a new relationship (Milo); and unconditional support and rejection of others

ruthless, scandalous, and invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young daughter alongside her strong-willed mother. A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a refuge for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person. Val is an underdog and fights for others who have been dismissed or taken advantage of.

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, Belle is fearful--particularly for her mother's sake--that her father's true origins may be uncovered path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young single mother father; she loses two roommates due to the baby's crying; she receives little practical help from her mother The family's singing is romanticized, but Maria reveals that one daughter had extreme anxiety about performing

young cousin's preventable death has obsessively focused on learning about, combating, and teaching others She's somewhat of a loner, part of a beloved family, and a merchant's daughter, but she's plainly dressed But when the king personally arrives at her workshop, desperate for help with his sole surviving daughter More Kingfisher and other Fantasy Novels T. Kingfisher is also the author of many other novels. You can find my Bossy review of A Sorceress Comes to Call   here and reviews of other fantasy titles

The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman (published fall 2023) Sinead O'Connor: The Last Interview: And Other spent in the Netherlands, to their family's move to working-class Pasadena; of their proper Indonesian mother outlines her childhood spent surrounded by artists and musicians, her difficult relationship with her mother , her young marriage to Sonny Bono, their split, and the shaping roles of her life--daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, ally...and unparalleled superstar. 05 The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography

Daniella Mestyanek Young grew up the daughter of high-ranking members of The Children of God cult in Her mother was forced to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The abuse, hunger, male-dominated power structures, and various methods of deprivation that kept her and other

by Ann Patchett Patchett's Tom Lake is a heartwarming, poignant Covid-era bonding session between a mother and her three grown daughters as Lara recounts the surprisingly layered story of her youthful romance In Ann Patchett's novel Tom Lake, Lara's three young-adult daughters reunite at the family's Northern But when Lara shares aspects of a life lived before her children existed, her daughters are led to consider choices, as well as life's twists and turns, evolving dreams and desires, their relationship with their mother

small town, where tragedy in the form of evil white men took their father from them and left their mother The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman. months in the life of an extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter , a spunky and fantastic granddaughter Gussie, a daughter with another grandchild on the way, a deadbeat She is facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life,

Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories of Bell's own mother--who fled Belarus in her youth--and her hardships and determination; and we glimpse the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's

But her memoir details childhood abuse, her mother's deteriorating mental health, the development of I love Caruso's writing style, her character-building, and the way the characters relate to each other I predict that I'll be reading all of her other books as well. Isabel is a spinster living in self-prescribed rigidity and adhering to strict schedules in her late mother's in their mother's old room!--Isabel is more than a little annoyed.

Catherine Newman is also the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for Maine, like other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young single mother father; she loses two roommates due to the baby's crying; she receives little practical help from her mother From the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two

Young Dave Win, the son of a Burmese father he never met and a devoted, kind seamstress mother, attends He dodges unwelcome attention, begins to love to act in plays, and explores his feelings about other his sexuality and, ultimately, a satisfying amount of growth and his ability to be vulnerable with other Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business The story also explores Dave's and his mother's personal, individual paths through various experiences