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,

In Northern California, grown sisters Mere and Frankie have been circling each other for years, often bristling, brewing resentment, and holding their tongues about each other's lives and families, while In the background is the haunting disappearance of local mother Brie (who is, unknown to most, an addict Please check out these links for Bossy reviews of other books about sisters, addiction, or missing persons

Arthie Casimir and her makeshift gang--Flick, Jin, and vampire leader Laith--are eager to upend Flick's mother's When Yeva runs across sisters posing as participants of the marriage industry in order to find their mother

And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list? Reichl explores how one's appearance affects how others treat you--not a revolutionary concept, but I I found her teenage daughter's sections somewhat irritating, but it must be tough to be a teenager drawn She credits those who shaped her culinary journey: the Queen of Mold (her mother, a notorious food poisoner

refusing joy and fulfillment, but going through his life largely in order to fulfill commitments to his mother The reverberating repercussions of that one night largely shape the story, and the story pivots on other

younger to me—their matching outfits, reverting to sucking thumbs after a crisis, free use of each other's Father and daughter, brother and sister, and mother and father find their way back together after hurting each other, making mistakes, misunderstanding intentions, and losing their individual paths.

Massachusetts, Isaac Fitzgerald traces his life from his unlikely conception (his parents were married...but to other Fitzgerald has lived in a homeless shelter; he was abused by his father; his mother's mental illness relatively late in the book, and general, positive notions about being kind and standing up against others You might want to check out these other Bossy nonfiction favorites and memoir favorites.

friends and ex-spouses, live in intimate solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters , each other, themselves, and the world. Lucy explores with insight the perspective of those on the other end of the political spectrum from Lucy They each seem to find the other--and their relationship--awkward and irritating at times, but their Lucy's creation of an imaginary, supportive mother and her loving responses to and comfort for Lucy in

Smith's light fiction about an emotionally distant father and daughter trying to find connection on a But Greta's mother passed away recently, and the couples' trip to Alaska that her mother had planned and he obviously not-so-secretly hopes the trip will help Greta and her father find their way to each other

His oldest daughter died as a teenager, and the grief destroyed his marriage. He's self-obsessed and sloppy, and he's allowed himself to become distant from his only living daughter So he packs them into the car, enlists his grumbling grown daughter to help him, and hits the road.

More Books You Might Like Christopher Buehlman is also the author of The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters Please check out other Bossy medieval-set reads and horror reads.

full review of this book, see In Pieces. 04 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother of an understanding of the people her parents were and the forces that shaped their lives (and their daughters Her interviews and experiences with others who mentor her journey in different ways could have felt disruptive place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might better the lives of others

Scotia, both of the women's lives will be turned upside down--along with the lives of thousands of others especially struck by the struggle between work and motherhood, the crushing societal judgment of unwed mothers For other Bossy historical fiction favorites, please check out the reviews and Greedy Reading Lists linked

points of view of the persecuted, disrespected, and dismissed: prostitutes, the poor, unwed teenage mothers For my full review, please see Songteller. 02 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother extensive emotional manipulation, his elaborate interview accounts of his sexual escapades with her and others

That fateful night, Chris had come across as more aloof--but he had been grieving the loss of his mother Larissa and Chris feel more and more connected to each other, but because they'd never hurt Mike, they More Books to Check Out You might also want to check out these other Bossy reviews of books by Abby Jimenez or other rom-coms I've loved .

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

and Simon the Fiddler are two more by Paulette Jiles that I've waxed poetic about on this blog, and others If you like historical fiction, you might also like some of my many other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading And: which other books should I add to my Civil War historical fiction to-read list? Marilynne Robinson is also the author of Home , Lila , Jack , Housekeeping , and other books. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story

Since Lilith's mother's death, she has developed strange powers and visions, and when her future is foretold an enraging cycle of absurd tests that cannot be passed, the women who have spurned men, hold wealth others

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard's literary speculative 01 The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard In Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley, teenaged speculative fiction explores fate, free will, changing the past and implications for the future, and other Meanwhile Emma's unbalanced, often-absent mother is the reason she ended up in foster care multiple times When Justin's situation keeps getting more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially

She's days away from bringing her daughter and father to meet her husband in Michigan, But the famine Will they be able to overcome that awkward start and see each other for the perfect match they may naturally be for each other?

from social media for Lent, and while I love to talk books on Instagram and Facebook and to peruse other Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics in their drafty, But an unwed mother in that time and place has little chance of keeping a child once the Church has a The delving into the past draws Kat and Heath back into each others' orbits--and reveals secrets they Camilla is a new mother who has just dropped off her baby for her first day of daycare when the police

Danielle Henderson; Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile; Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina; Somebody's Daughter 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

Single mom Dolly Brick (her mother was a country music fan) returns to her seaside Rhode Island hometown of my favorite rom-com reads that are likely to be available through your library--and for endless other

Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old daughter Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--

Cravens's LGBTQ Western set in a brothel in 1877 Dodge City; I'm reading Tricia Levenseller's debut novel Daughter Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West. 02 Daughter Daughter of the Pirate King is the first in a duology from Levenseller and is her debut novel. The second book is Daughter of the Siren Queen. 03 Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder Lilah Hunter But in real life, Shane and Lilah detest each other.

You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy 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, 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

For my full review of this book, please see The River. 03 Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera Although But she and the other characters were developed fully. For my full review of this book, please see Call Your Daughter Home. 04 The World That We Knew by Alice Alice Hoffman is also the author of many other books, including The Invisible Hour. 05 Sorry I'm Late I kept thinking about it while I was doing other things, and I just wanted to get back to Edward to find

Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics when an unexpected But then an infant is left in the care of father and daughter, and as the winter progresses, Jack and You can find Bossy reviews of other novels set in Ireland here . 03 Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca

Siblings Joe, Cathy, and Frannie work together (at the vet practice their mother started), they live very near each other, they have weekly traditions, and now they are vacationing together at their jointly They cannot keep straight faces, they discuss incriminating facts where others might hear them, compound

She notes that she and her mother particularly leaned on laughing and joking during bleak moments. The author is evolving in her views on the world, and while becoming a mother brought spotlight focus

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. family, and an exhausted sense of constantly living a lie; she finds it difficult to connect to her daughter The black twin returns to the girls' hometown and shakes things up by bringing her very dark-skinned daughter Bennett also wrote The Mothers, which I had mixed feelings about.

fantastical origin story (stolen by faeries and pressed into service, including his own baby snatching and other He bands with other disillusioned parties abused by faeries with a grand scheme that they hope will end More Books by this Author and Other Bossy Reviews of Retellings If you like retellings, you may want Parry is also the author of The Magician's Daughter , The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep , The Scholar

She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project. But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to

Anyhoo, I feel like this book and I have been circling each other since early May, and I was so delighted out early on that she faces the impending loss of her sight, that she is somewhat estranged from her daughter To find Bossy reviews of other books I've read, please check out the titles at this link .

Tasha Suri is also the author of T he Burning Kingdoms trilogy, The Books of Ambha duology, and other Nina's young-adult daughter Ash thinks Nick might be too smooth, and the timing of his entrance into characters in Don't Let Him In begin to ask questions, they head on a crash course straight toward each other Lisa Jewell is also the author of The Family Upstairs , None of This Is True , and other books.

While characters struggle to make ends meet, support each other, and avoid giving in to the least generous protagonist, despite the novel's title, yet he is central to the story in that his presence pushes others 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.

His beloved mother Leah kept her son fed and supplied with books, and she worked relentlessly at menial for survival are limited, and he begins to train as a pickpocket, soon eclipsing his teacher and the other alleys, and squares flanking the polluted Thames where the band of thieves scrape by, care for each other set scenes of the times, and for the sprawling interconnected characters and their caring for each other Benjamin Rask is a ruthless, outrageously successful Wall Street tycoon, and his beloved wife Helen is the daughter

Despite her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting pressure and sky-high expectations, June has always done just Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements You can check out my Bossy reviews of other young adult novels here.

newlywed, falling into the path set out for her as a young married woman--with an aim of becoming a mother intrigue, exploration of gender and power roles, unconventional friendship, and danger. 02 Firekeeper's Daughter She must stay home from college to care for her ailing mother, which puts on hold her hopes for her future markings (which carry more specific predictions than those she's born with) emerge, she is irresistible to others demands to examine) the girls' naked bodies and markings--including those of their own sisters and daughters

What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman Misery Lark is the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre in the region, and she'd prefer to literally Ali Hazelwood is also the author of Love, Theoretically  and other books. Click here for my full review of Bride . 03 The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard The Other Valley But somewhere along the way, they lose sight of each other--and of themselves.

Equation, Christina Lauren's newest light fiction about a logical, practical single mom who adores her daughter She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents Her father wasn't part of her life, her mother disappeared when she was little, and her daughter's father In Namesake, Fable discovers the truth behind the secrets her mother took to her grave, establishes their

In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. When a local young man dies suddenly, Rocky and her young-adult daughter Willa, temporarily living at

Abroad, in which Uncle Patrick tries to support Maisie and Grant five years after the death of their mother fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, her mother since Patrick O'Hara served as a caregiver for his niece Maisie and nephew Grant the summer after their mother Grant are not fans of their dad's plan, and Patrick steps in to try to support them--but he also has other

You can also search by category under the Bossy Book Reviews menu to find other historical fiction books delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others With powerful looks at the widespread nineteenth-century prejudice against the Irish and other immigrant Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and the upcoming The Fire and the Ore . 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story

Serle Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother She is determined to take the trip to Italy she and her mother had optimistically planned during her begins to recognize what the reader might notice early on: that her intense lifetime reliance on her mother When Katy wakes up one day faced with her actual own mother standing in her hotel lobby in the prime As days pass, Katy realizes she seems to have been been gifted with an opportunity to know her mother

Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother. In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada-- The female characters' stories are deeply intertwined; I saw some of the events coming but not others

The reader is privy to Valerie's poignant letters to her mother as she struggles to survive in the wild Lena, Valerie, and Bev are inexorably connected, and Valerie's survival depends upon the other two women's

He lives with his overbearing mother, who had him when she was quite young and has never revealed much They bristle at each other, bicker, yet they live cooperatively: she feeds him and he pays the bills

When Laurel's lifelong love and ex-husband arrives unexpectedly with other physicists to explore the Arc, Laurel wonders if he and she might find their way to each other again--at least in order to understand Since Lilith's mother's death, she has developed strange powers and visions, and when her future is foretold

with Death, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Instructions for a Heatwave, This Must Be the Place, and others A run-in with her old school crush Sam, her daughter's move from home, and stress and uncertainty at You might also like these other Bossy reviews of books about tennis.