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How to Love Your Daughter
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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How to Love Your Daughter
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Publisher's Summary
WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022
What damage do we do in the blindness of love?
Thousands of miles from her home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of her only daughter, the grandchildren she’s never met.
At the centre of this mesmerising story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss – a mother besotted with her only child – arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that together may have undermined what she most treasured.
With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it’s possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it – and it’s uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.
Critic Reviews
"This mesmerizing, quietly harrowing novel begins with a mother’s complete estrangement from her adult daughter and works backward to reveal the ways that maternal love can strangle when it was only trying to cradle, can recklessly misdirect when it wanted to protect. Excellent and unforgettable." (Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade and The Dive from Clauden's Pier)
"There are no villains nor angels, but rather a human complexity, to be identified with and feared… These possibilities – for introspection, to open for discussion that which was deemed an axiom, to understand the other – these are the exact signs of fine literature." (Noa Limone, Haaretz)
"This book wisely strums the delicate strings which connect parents and their children, winds them well and produces an agonizing and alluring piece of music." (Yoni Livneh, Yediot Aharonot)
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Dee
- 11-01-2024
Felt like song stuck on repeat
How to love your daughter follows a mother and her struggle with mental health and her relationship with her only daughter. Her inability to provide boundaries in their relationship leads to their estrangement . The mother then stalks her grandchildren once again crossing boundaries. Disappointing ending . Wouldn’t recommend.
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