My book is here!Along with some excerpts, essays, and interviews—and I could use your help launching it into the world.
It’s pub day! My book, My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past, is officially out in the world today! I have a few quick ways for you to support me and this book:
If you haven’t been following along: my book is about how a DNA test connected me with my sister Kathy, who my mom placed for adoption at a home for unwed mothers in the sixties, twenty years before I was born. I set out to understand what had happened back in 1965 and learned that our mom was one of over a million women who in the pre-Roe era were sent away and coerced into adoption. She was pulled into a racist and sexist system designed to turn “bad girls” into proper women, wives, and mothers. It was meant to control women’s sexuality, promote marriage, and bolster the white nuclear-family norm. I realized that my own life had been profoundly shaped by my mom’s past, but I also stumbled on a bigger story about shame, family secrets, race, and everything that we inherit from our mothers in a world that hates them. New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein puts it like so:
It’s gotten starred reviews from both Kirkus (“deeply researched, lyrically written,” “trenchant and moving,” and “a powerful rejection of white-male dominated systems of oppression”) and Booklist (”a stirring family history... reckoning with race, power, privilege, and women’s roles”). I appreciate your support so much—and hope to see you tonight or in the coming days! You can expect some behind-the-scenes reports from book tour in the coming weeks.
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