Recs if you like What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence...

(famous) authors writing about their mothers (or their (complicated) relationships with their mothers)

memoirs & non-fiction

the complicated inheritance of being someone's daughter. maternal wounds, generational trauma, inherited neuroses, impossible expectations, and the many ways love can leave a mark. mothers we love, resent, misunderstand, and spend a lifetime trying to figure out. daughters caught between becoming their mothers, disappointing them, and figuring out who they are without them. // some family issues require a little more than a family group chat.

— suggestions always welcome!

If you didn’t have mommy issues before, you will now.

seminal autobiographies