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52/100Critics
96/100Scholars
Author:
Ashley C. Ford
Publisher:
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Date:
June 1, 2021
Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
What The Reviewers Say
Somebody’s Daughter is the heart-wrenching yet equally witty and wondrous story of how Ford came through the fire and emerged triumphant, as her own unapologetic, Black-girl self.
Somebody’s Daughter is smoothly written and marked by moments of alert complexity. Ford borrows from her literary foremother Zora Neale Hurston — especially Hurston’s juxtaposition of happiness to intimacy with the sun.
... heart-wrenching.
Somebody’s Daughter is an apt title for Ford’s memoir, especially since she spends most of her young life hoping to be more than a daughter. The narrative details her attempts to claim that independent identity, but the path is not straightforward.
