How to Love Your Daughter How to Love Your Daughter

How to Love Your Daughter

A Novel

    • 3.7 • 30 Ratings
    • $5.99

Publisher Description

“A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” —Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?


Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she’s never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years.

At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss—a mother besotted with her only child—arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that in ensemble may have undermined what she most treasured. With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it’s possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it—and uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2023
July 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.7
MB

Customer Reviews

DeniseJY ,

Brilliant and disturbing novel of suffocating love

Blum lost her nerve at the wrong moment; this novel wasn't ready to be over...but she's a sensational novelist and the translation feels exactly right.

Mfny ,

I don’t get it - disjointed, pointless and unresolved

I found this to be a boring tale that went nowhere. Too bad, the premise is interesting, but the book wasn’t

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