DAUGHTERHOOD - Emily Adrian
ABOUT THE BOOK
Emily Adrian is determined to see her mother Ellen clearly. Part memoir, part autofiction, and part interview, Daughterhood charts a map of Ellen’s life before and after she became Emily’s mother. As a high schooler, Ellen lived alone in a trailer park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. At eighteen, she had a job counting wild horses in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. She was engaged three times before her twenty-first birthday and finally married in the Salt Lake Temple—but her Mormon husband left her when he found her birth control pills. For the author, these stories were half-forgotten folklore until she had a child of her own. Overwhelmed and challenged by motherhood, Emily turns a novelistic eye toward the woman who raised her.
PRAISE FOR DAUGHTERHOOD
“Emily Adrian’s memoir is a family portrait, painfully honest and true, a piercing book about how to be a good parent, or a good child, about risk and faith, feelings of inadequacy, the disappointments of aging—that is to say, life. It’s also a book about writing, about how other people help us know ourselves. About getting through pain, but not too quickly. It’s about how to fall in love and stay in love, how to let the people we love be, and how to let them change—to honor them this way. ‘It doesn’t matter what we’re capable of doing,’ Adrian writes. ‘It only matters what we do.’ You will love this book.”
— Elisa Gabbert, author of Any Person Is the Only Self
“Beautiful. Captures many things about mothers and daughters I've never seen captured before.”
—Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen and Margo's Got Money Troubles
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily Adrian is the author of several novels. Her work has appeared in Granta, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her family.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Print Length: 170 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-32-5
ABOUT THE BOOK
Emily Adrian is determined to see her mother Ellen clearly. Part memoir, part autofiction, and part interview, Daughterhood charts a map of Ellen’s life before and after she became Emily’s mother. As a high schooler, Ellen lived alone in a trailer park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. At eighteen, she had a job counting wild horses in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. She was engaged three times before her twenty-first birthday and finally married in the Salt Lake Temple—but her Mormon husband left her when he found her birth control pills. For the author, these stories were half-forgotten folklore until she had a child of her own. Overwhelmed and challenged by motherhood, Emily turns a novelistic eye toward the woman who raised her.
PRAISE FOR DAUGHTERHOOD
“Emily Adrian’s memoir is a family portrait, painfully honest and true, a piercing book about how to be a good parent, or a good child, about risk and faith, feelings of inadequacy, the disappointments of aging—that is to say, life. It’s also a book about writing, about how other people help us know ourselves. About getting through pain, but not too quickly. It’s about how to fall in love and stay in love, how to let the people we love be, and how to let them change—to honor them this way. ‘It doesn’t matter what we’re capable of doing,’ Adrian writes. ‘It only matters what we do.’ You will love this book.”
— Elisa Gabbert, author of Any Person Is the Only Self
“Beautiful. Captures many things about mothers and daughters I've never seen captured before.”
—Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen and Margo's Got Money Troubles
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily Adrian is the author of several novels. Her work has appeared in Granta, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her family.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Print Length: 170 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-32-5
ABOUT THE BOOK
Emily Adrian is determined to see her mother Ellen clearly. Part memoir, part autofiction, and part interview, Daughterhood charts a map of Ellen’s life before and after she became Emily’s mother. As a high schooler, Ellen lived alone in a trailer park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. At eighteen, she had a job counting wild horses in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. She was engaged three times before her twenty-first birthday and finally married in the Salt Lake Temple—but her Mormon husband left her when he found her birth control pills. For the author, these stories were half-forgotten folklore until she had a child of her own. Overwhelmed and challenged by motherhood, Emily turns a novelistic eye toward the woman who raised her.
PRAISE FOR DAUGHTERHOOD
“Emily Adrian’s memoir is a family portrait, painfully honest and true, a piercing book about how to be a good parent, or a good child, about risk and faith, feelings of inadequacy, the disappointments of aging—that is to say, life. It’s also a book about writing, about how other people help us know ourselves. About getting through pain, but not too quickly. It’s about how to fall in love and stay in love, how to let the people we love be, and how to let them change—to honor them this way. ‘It doesn’t matter what we’re capable of doing,’ Adrian writes. ‘It only matters what we do.’ You will love this book.”
— Elisa Gabbert, author of Any Person Is the Only Self
“Beautiful. Captures many things about mothers and daughters I've never seen captured before.”
—Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen and Margo's Got Money Troubles
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily Adrian is the author of several novels. Her work has appeared in Granta, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her family.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
Print Length: 170 pages
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-32-5