{"product_id":"my-mothers-daughter-finding-myself-in-my-familys-fractured-past","title":"My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A searching, intimate, and powerful memoir about the bonds that shape us and the histories that hum beneath everyday life. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e moves with tenderness and moral clarity, asking how love, loss, and long-held secrets travel across generations. Tracy Clark-Flory has written a beautiful, haunting, and resonant book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChelsea Bieker, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMadwoman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGodshot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTracy Clark-Flory \n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist, essayist, and author of the memoir \n\u003ci\u003eWant Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for \n\u003ci\u003e Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eELLE\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWIRED\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWomen's Health\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at \n\u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e and a staff writer at \n\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes a weekly newsletter and cohosts \n\u003ci\u003eDire Straights\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture. You can find more at TracyClarkFlory.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Moving, trenchant, and deeply humane, \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the tour de force of a memoir you need to read this year. I laughed, I cried, and I was instantly pulled in by this beautiful story of family, gender, race, searching, and belonging.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kate Manne, author of \u003ci\u003eDown Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnshrinking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A tender, revelatory, and deeply moving look at how family is shaped in the shadows of patriarchal power. Tracy probes her own history with curiosity and openness, expanding the possibilities of both grief and inheritance, even when they are touched by reproductive control. By unearthing her mother's story, Tracy steps into the light and creates something altogether new. Defiant, transformative, and incredibly timely, \n\u003cb\u003et\u003c\/b\u003ehis book will forever change how you understand motherhood, love, and the power of sisterhood.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Amanda Montei, author of \u003ci\u003eTouched Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A multidimensional and intimate analysis of gendered shame, \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e deeply interrogates female sexual deviance across generational secrets and myths.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Koa Beck, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Tracy Clark-Flory connects the dots between her own life, the reader's, and the larger culture, turning the family story of a pregnant girl caught by the social forces of her time--around gender, race, class--into the story of all women: who we are as daughters, how we carry the relationships to our mothers long after they are gone, and how we are shaped, generationally, by the limits on our personal, sexual, and reproductive freedom. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of book you can't wait to talk about with your friends.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Peggy Orenstein, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGirls \u0026amp; Sex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A rich and deeply layered portrait of family and how we think about identity, memory, trauma, and love. This riveting story reveals how the past is never truly the past at all, but instead is constantly changing who we are with every uncovered truth and new conversation.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Soraya Chemaly, author of \u003ci\u003eAll We Want Is Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Tracy Clark-Flory has written a powerful, searching, and honest reckoning with the complicated inheritance mothers pass to daughters. Through investigating her own family's very American story in all its pain and beauty, she interrogates the burdens of history while never losing sight of the individuals shaped by it. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eis clear-eyed, moving, and true.\" \n\u003cb\u003e-- Irin Carmon, author of \u003ci\u003eUnbearable\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNotorious RBG \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful, complex narrative of how women have been held back and how we can change our futures. Reading this felt like sitting down with a dear friend, sorting through the sexual baggage we've been handed, and letting it go. This book is a myth-buster, a cycle-breaker, and it's also a page turner. I was so fully immersed, I could not put it down.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Lyz Lenz, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGod Land\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBelabored\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Vivid, brave, and full of grace, \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eis a deft, inspired examination of the love and mysteries between moms and their children. Tracy writes with characteristic self-awareness and a steady hand, guiding readers across continents and decades as she discovers, wrestles with, and finds both grief and joy in a family history that is shockingly common yet rarely told. Her story is haunting and satisfying. It is delicate and sacred--and as solid as a rock. It is also full of humor and sweetness. I will tell every mother and daughter I know to read this luminous, resonant bell of a book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Savala Nolan, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Woman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDon't Let it Get You Down \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Powerful.... Deeply researched and lyrically written.... A trenchant and moving memoir about adoption and systemic racism.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A stirring family history... reckoning with race, power, privilege, and women's roles... Clark-Flory writes movingly... the result is a well-researched, engaging narrative.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"What a beautiful, immersive book. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e isn't a mystery, but it reads a little like one, as Tracy Clark-Flory deftly peels back layer after layer of her own family's story, laying bare much about this country's history, as well as its relationship to sex, shame, women, race, and the durability of love itself. I cried!\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Rebecca Traister, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGood and Mad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Single Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eWant Me\u003c\/i\u003e (an NPR Best Book of the Year) comes a \"tender, revelatory, and deeply moving\" (Amanda Montei, \u003ci\u003eTouched Out\u003c\/i\u003e) story of family secrets, sisterhood, and the importance of untangling all that we inherit from our mothers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracy 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Blending powerful memoir with cultural criticism, \n\u003ci\u003eMy Mother'\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003es Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, intimate tale of traumatic inheritance and intergenerational healing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781668083321, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/15\/2026 (EAN 9781668083321, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/16\/2026 (EAN 9781668083321, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eClark-Flory, Tracy\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTracy Clark-Flory \n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist, essayist, and author of the memoir \n\u003ci\u003eWant Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for \n\u003ci\u003e Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eELLE\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWIRED\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWomen's Health\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at \n\u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e and a staff writer at \n\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes a weekly newsletter and cohosts \n\u003ci\u003eDire Straights\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture. 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