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Molly Jong-Fast's frank memoir explores her complicated, unsatisfying relationship with her famous mother Erica as she faces dementia--and as Molly realizes that her hopes for a healthy, supportive, or caring mother-daughter Throughout her childhood, Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. But Erica was focused on basking in the success of her book Fear of Flying , and Molly spied her mother The author explores her lifelong adoration of her mother, her mother's limitations (Erica often told

advertising is to rip a hole in your heart so it can then fill that hole with plastic, or with any other Citizens sign away their rights when any other option seems impossible. Phillips is also the author of The Need , a National Book Award nominee, The Beautiful Bureaucrat , and other For Bossy reviews of other books about robots and artificial intelligence, please check out the posts

Meanwhile Emma's unbalanced, often-absent mother is the reason she ended up in foster care over and over When Justin's situation keeps getting more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially Both main characters' mothers are faulted, far from perfect, and have made decisions that upend Justin In one case, it seems that grief and trauma are the cause of poor judgment; in the other, mental illness Characters from other Jimenez books appear, although it took me time to figure out that Alexis, Daniel

I loved Enid's complicated, loving mother-daughter relationship as well as her best-friendship. Her quirky, beloved mother struggles with depression, and Enid struggles to keep an eye on her. I loved the mother-daughter love. And I loved Enid's best-friendship.

The characters in The Perfect Mother make endless poor or nerve-wracking choices (stealing, sharing information not meant for others, failing to meet professional deadlines, spying, ultimately turning on each other majority of their questionable choices don’t feel linked to attempts to free themselves from “perfect mother felt like thin bonds holding the women together in the first place—they would ever purposely see each other The Perfect Mother is a quick read and a page-turner, although you may consistently suspect that you’

Nadia is growing up without a mother in San Diego with a distracted father, but there's a Greek chorus-type voice of The Mothers from her church that know what's going on and weigh in on Nadia's decisions and Nadia eventually returns, and at the end, the Mothers speculate about her situation and motivation but The voices of the Mothers were a strength of the book to me, as well as Aubrey's evolution as a character

Mary Otis's debut novel explores the complicated mother-daughter relationship between alcoholic, erratic Mary Otis's debut novel Burst explores a fraught mother-daughter relationship. As Viva gets older, she immerses herself in dance and distances herself from her mother. from her younger years, she begins to make choices that further echo her mother's path. You can find more Bossy reviews of books I've read about mothers and daughters here.

Daughter of the Pirate King is the first in a trilogy from Levenseller and is her debut novel. The second book is Daughter of the Siren Queen, and the third will be Vengeance of the Pirate King.

ICYMI: Morton offers a strong historical fiction mystery, with assumed identities, dual timelines, twists and turns, and a richly wrought setting. In 1862, a group of artists arrive at Birchwood Manor to relax and allow inspiration to strike, but odd tragedy and destruction unfold instead. A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery. She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer. This one took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I love Kate Morton’s writing and her rich detail. I’m glad the circumstances of what led to the mystery—yikes!—didn’t become plain until toward the end. With dual storylines, multiple generations, assumed identities, otherworldly beings, wonderful chance (and life-changing) encounters, and a rich English countryside setting. This was lovely. I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Kate Morton is also the author of Homecoming, The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Keeper, The House at Riverton, The Distant Hours, and The Lake House.

In Evil Eye, Etaf Rum (author of A Woman Is No Man) considers a small-town North Carolina artist, mother Isn't she supposed to feel thankful for a kind husband, healthy and lovely daughters, and being allowed Rum explores mother-daughter relationships and cycles of dysfunction and abuse in Evil Eye. of divorce, which is considered a life-ruining choice in her culture, may have been able to save her mother The evil eye imagery is poignant, as it carries from her mother to Yara and means different things to

The twelve women in Girl, Woman, Other --each of whom gets a chapter to tell her story, which is often joined in progress--are mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers concerned with sexuality, autonomy, The characters frequently intersperse political, historical, feminist, cultural, and other context throughout During the multiple lessons the characters gave each other about feminism and gender--complete with references I listened to Girl, Woman, Other as an audiobook (as directed by my smarty friend Kirstan) to get the

Waxman offers a nice dose of feminism, realistically fraught mother-daughter interactions, and laugh-out-loud Emily is her teenaged daughter who is unsure what she wants for her future (and is generally irritated When mother and daughter head out for a weeklong visit of east coast colleges with a touring company, bond over an awkward dinner with Jessica's flirtatious college boyfriend; run-ins with an insufferable mother-daughter Waxman offers a nice dose of feminism, realistically fraught mother-daughter interactions, and laugh-out-loud

fiction from Shelley Read; I'm listening to the audiobook version of Mary Otis's Burst, a story about a mother and daughter; and I'm reading Mary Sharratt's historical fiction, Illuminations. Iola, Colorado, in the 1960s. 02 Burst by Mary Otis Mary Otis's debut novel Burst explores a fraught mother-daughter As Viva gets older, she immerses herself in dance and distances herself from her mother. Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose

But as they catch up on each other's careers and personal lives, explore, eat, drink, and celebrate, For a time, I confused some of the seven characters and their significant others, and the fact that I

But when the shop owner, who owns several other local businesses and is a town council member, turns Isn't she supposed to feel thankful for a kind husband, healthy and lovely daughters, and being allowed Rum explores mother-daughter relationships and cycles of dysfunction and abuse in Evil Eye.

Emily is her teenaged daughter who's unsure about what she wants from her future and is generally irritated When mother and daughter head out for a weeklong tour of east coast colleges with a touring company, an awkward dinner with Jessica's flirtatious college boyfriend; run-ins with an insufferably snobby mother-daughter author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill) has offered a nice dose of feminism, realistically fraught mother-daughter fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction title that still manages to get to the heart of complicated mother-daughter

The Book Woman's Daughter is Kim Michele Richardson's stand-alone sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome The story picks up with teenage Honey, Cussy's daughter, while Cussy and her husband are suffering persecution Richardson writes about strong Kentuckians and their environment, and in The Book Woman's Daughter she delves back into the rural "book lady" route as well as remote nurses, moonshiners, fire-spotters, and other Others seek to take advantage of Honey's vulnerable, isolated position.

Ford shares how she navigated an unforgiving childhood and complicated relationships with her volatile mother In her memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless Somebody's Daughter is beautifully straightforward and honest as the author follows the fits and starts I read Ford's memoir Somebody's Daughter around the same time I read the memoir Crying in H Mart by Michelle

She must stay home from college to care for her ailing mother, which puts on hold her hopes for her future

The Other Valley is literary fiction with a captivating setup: three adjacent valleys, each of which In Scott Alexander Howard's The Other Valley, teenaged Odile lives in an isolated community that's bordered The Other Valley builds from a captivating premise and kept me hooked--through despair, love, duty, and speculative fiction explores fate, free will, changing the past and implications for the future, and other

I received a prepublication copy of Buried Deep and Other Stories  courtesy of NetGalley and Ballantine

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be an other bird than just the same old thing." comes to take ownership of her deceased mother's apartment. After Zoey's beloved mother died, Zoey's father and stepmother prioritized her stepsiblings emotionally and in every other way. Zoey shows her kind and delightfully unguarded nature as she befriends her mother's neighbors and begins

Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island century later, the Honeys' descendants and their diverse neighbors--some have escaped from trouble, while others Harding's book comes from Shakespeare's Richard II: This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Nature for herself The secluded community in the book is like a large family, dependent on only each other will pass for white, but his past--about which he is guileless--threatens to destroy his future due to others

So when Emmy's best friend's teen daughter Madison brushes her off, then shows up, needy and asking for stretch, like calls to like, and it seems plausible that damaged, sick individuals would be drawn to each other More Slaughter and More Bossy Mysteries I listened to this story as an audiobook. Karin Slaughter is the author of approximately 25 books. For other mysteries I've read and Bossily reviewed, please check out the titles at this link .

The book begins with Gupta's apology to her mother for airing the family's dirty laundry rather than She explains that only by telling the truth in this way does she have any hope of allowing others to The book itself is directed to Gupta's mother, and Gupta explains to her mother the reality of past events that emphasizes her estrangement from her parents--and her particular pain in being distant from her mother

this premise of aging elite assassins who feel deep affection for and, at times, annoyance with each other Their age plays into their potential disguises (and the ribbing they give each other about vanity or So you pick up your bag and you close the door behind you, just like you've closed a hundred other doors Kills Well with Others sometimes feels a little bit as though Raybourn is gamely giving her readers what The mind-bending examinations of what other characters might be up to and the combat and narrow escapes

with followers desperate for even the most misguided hope and leadership during a drought, a broken mother-daughter rains down on the congregation during the low-tech church services (no one looks up to see the leader's daughter

The twist in The Other Side of Night is fascinating, but I wanted to feel more for the characters, who In Adam Hamdy's The Other Side of Night, the lives of a young boy, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced tragedies, an enigmatic note written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other Much of the page time in The Other Side of Night is spent with characters who exhibit odd, unexplained The Other Side of Night offers an intriguing, dramatic twist that I definitely didn't expect as it edges

Power begins by noting a neglectful mother's superstition and obsession with starting regular fires in the run-down apartment she shares with her teenage daughter--not with keeping the fire lit, but prioritizing defensive when her teenage daughter Margot makes a peep--for example, to ask practically what they should make to eat from the mother's oddly random and unhelpful mix of groceries. The mother-daughter dynamic and home situation is possibly intended to be dramatic and mysterious, but

But she and the other characters were developed fully. staggeringly tragic challenges, Spera injects some moments of joy—often related to their relationships to each other

Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of an actual female Buffalo Soldier, Cathy Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books

The twelve women in Girl, Woman, Other --each of whom gets a chapter to tell her story, which is often joined in progress--are mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers concerned with sexuality, autonomy, Evaristo won the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other. For my full review, check out Girl, Woman, Other. 02 Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard In Jo Ann Beard's The themes feel potentially universal to other small, rural communities.

children's health challenges and takes the reader through the emergence of her son's epilepsy and her daughter's

the World: A Geography of Faith, Learning to Walk in the Dark, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, and other

She's days away from bringing her daughter and aging father to meet her husband in Michigan. Majumdar twists the situation between thief and mother, continually shifting the reader's loyalties as The mother has taken from others to preserve her daughter's life and her own. This was the destructive attainment of a mother's life's work. As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few

with her mortality to the terror of facing possibly leaving crucial things undone before her death to others I mentioned Kate's book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading

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 She is a young mother who had met a nice guy and followed the prescribed steps of the time: marriage, We are simultaneously immersed in Dawn's adoration of her daughter Maggie: every expression, every finger leaving Maggie alone was best for her daughter.

In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves really about personal growth, knowing your own mind and holding convictions, demonstrating loyalty to others interests at heart, forging unlikely bonds, becoming vulnerable to love, and making (and suffering through others ’) mistakes and forgiving and being forgiven—with an otherworldly backdrop of battles, learning other

I was intrigued by the novel's premise, in which a father weaves elaborate lies to raise his daughter Jane doesn't remember living in the Bay area, where her mother died. The figure of Jane's mother is easy to dislike; she reads as almost a caricature of an emotionally distant Jane's belief that her mother, to date a stranger, would magically resolve her many urgent challenges story was fascinating, and I felt drawn into the part of the novel set in the woods with a father, a daughter

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Molly Jong-Fast's memoir about her tumultuous relationship with her mother and other challenges, How to Lose Your Mother ; I'm listening to Lyla Sage's Western rom-com, the first 01 How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast Molly Jong-Fast is a podcaster and Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. Erica was focused on basking in the success of her book Fear of Flying , and Molly spied her mother in

1930 in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a widowed young mother , and somewhat of a local to the region, albeit estranged from her pastor father and her mother due to The MacInteers--tough yet tender mother Rai, her clever daughter Sass, playful young adult Finn, and second chances at love, avoidance of punishment for our heroes' missteps when they tell the truth about others Other books I've loved about traveling librarians include The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The

grown daughters as Lara recounts the surprisingly layered story of her youthful romance with an actor In Ann Patchett's newest novel, Tom Lake, Lara's three young-adult daughters reunite at the family's But when Lara shares aspects of a life lived before her children existed, her daughters are led to consider scattered and became something else...until one morning you're picking cherries with your three grown daughters Lara shields her daughters from only a few select elements of the story, which begins as a demand for

Eowyn Ivey offers elements familiar from her other two novels--a cold, unforgiving setting; magical realism Birdie's a single mother to Emaleen and a waitress in a small Alaskan town. Arthur, a recluse who only comes into town at the change of seasons--and who others avoid as actively Arthur is unlike anyone Birdie and her daughter have ever met; his speech pattern is unusual, and he the unpredictability of a wild spirit, she also draws a long-simmering danger toward herself and her daughter

In 1982, a young mother in a loveless marriage finds happiness in a socially unacceptable relationship , and the legal backlash causes her to lose custody of her beloved young daughter. Maggie is unaware of the particular circumstances around her parents' divorce and the reason for her mother's Sera's former mentor is wreaking havoc, grasping at ever-increasing power, and frightening other witches

Lingate was found dead under suspicious circumstances below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her young daughter Helen, determined to get to the bottom of her mother 's death, begins to dig into the truth, uncovering Patric Gagne always knew she didn't feel emotions the way other people did. She wasn't concerned with consequences, danger, or other people's feelings. When she was a girl, she adhered to her mother's rule of always telling her the truth--but the truth

I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person. Raine was a wealthy orphan--one of two daughters born to a white British father and an Indian mother, and her three grown daughters as Lara recounts the surprisingly layered story of her youthful romance In Ann Patchett's newest novel, Tom Lake, Lara's three young-adult daughters reunite at the family's But when Lara shares aspects of a life lived before her children existed, her daughters are led to consider

Her bitter mother has just had another baby, and her various other siblings are fighting for resources Her home life is hectic, hardscrabble, and emotionally cold, but she has never known life to be any other She has plenty to eat, useful work to do, she learns to love books, she finds laughter. of the story collections Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields as well as the novella The Forester's Daughter

straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother family home in New England and travels to her mother's favorite city, London. in order to share scenes from her mother's extraordinary spirit and life. 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 shine.

Jack Troy and his oldest daughter Ronnie are coping with complicated family dynamics in their drafty, Ronnie, a single and dutiful daughter, has grown up in the shadow of her father, who has long been set But an unwed mother in that time and place has little chance of keeping a child once the Church has a You can find Bossy reviews of other novels set in Ireland here and more reviews of literary fiction

She wasn't concerned with consequences, danger, or other people's feelings. When she was a girl, she adhered to her mother's rule of always telling her the truth--but the truth seemingly made her mother (and everyone else) upset. partner, parent, or daughter. yearning to exert violence on others.