My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past by Clark-Flory, Tracy
My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past by Clark-Flory, Tracy

My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past

From the journalist and author of Want Me (an NPR Best Book of the Year) comes a...
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Author: Tracy Clark-Flory
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Language: English
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My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past by Clark-Flory, Tracy

My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past

$34.80
My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past by Clark-Flory, Tracy

My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past

$34.80
Author: Tracy Clark-Flory
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From the journalist and author of Want Me (an NPR Best Book of the Year) comes a "tender, revelatory, and deeply moving" (Amanda Montei, Touched Out) story of family secrets, sisterhood, and the importance of untangling all that we inherit from our mothers.

Tracy Clark-Flory had a sister out there, somewhere. She knew that her mom, Deb, was sent to a home for unwed mothers as a pregnant teenager in the Sixties. After placing her baby for adoption, Deb was committed to a mental institution in her grief. Decades later, she had Tracy, who grew up as an only child longing for her sister. Now, in her thirties and a mother herself, Tracy takes a DNA test in hopes of finding her sister--and she does.

Newly connected with her half-sister Kathy, both daughters start asking questions about the past that their mom, who had died years earlier, could no longer answer. Tracy sets out to make sense of what happened back in 1965. She learns that their mom was pulled into a racist and sexist system designed to turn "bad girls" into proper women and wives. Tracy realizes that her own life has been profoundly shaped by her mom's past, but she also uncovers a bigger story about patriarchal control, mother-daughter dynamics, and the way that shame keeps us divided--both within ourselves and from each other.

Blending powerful memoir with cultural criticism, My Mother's Daughter is a moving, intimate tale of traumatic inheritance and intergenerational healing.

Author: Tracy Clark-Flory
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.27w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781668083321


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 03/16/2026

About the Author
Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist, essayist, and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for Cosmopolitan, The Cut, ELLE, Esquire, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, WIRED, Women's Health, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at Jezebel and a staff writer at Salon. She writes a weekly newsletter and cohosts Dire Straights, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture. You can find more at TracyClarkFlory.com.
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