My new memoir My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family Fractured Past is officially out in the world. I hope you’ll grab a copy. It’s gotten starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus (“deeply researched, lyrically written… trenchant and moving… powerful”). It was also selected for Amazon Editors’ Best Books of 2026 and as one of Publishers Weekly’s most-anticipated memoirs. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Traister says, “What a beautiful, immersive book… I cried!” Kate Manne calls it “the tour de force of a memoir you need to read this year.” Men are humping watermelons for women's healthAnd raising over $250,000 for the cause. Plus: Kesha is both celibate and adventurous in her new 'Origami' music video.
It’s a link roundup! We’ve got moms and daughters bonding over “otherness,” leftist and liberal men humping watermelons for charity, Kesha’s celibacy and experimentation as a reclamation of her sexuality, and more. Monsters, breaking hearts, and mother-daughter “otherness”Raechel Anne Jolie’s review of my memoir My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family Fractured Past made me tear up, and it means all the more to me because I respect her brain, words, and politics so much. (Go take her writing circle this summer.) She writes:
I also had a great Substack Live with Mark Pagán, who is doing important work over at Other Men. He captured some highlights from our chat, like this one, where I talk about a shared feeling of “otherness” with my mom:
And the always-inspiring Garrett Bucks has a lovely meditation on my book alongside Marika Sosnowsky’s 58 Facets:... Subscribe to TCF Emails to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of TCF Emails to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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