This Is Your Mother

Named a Best Memoir of 2025 (So Far) by BookPage and Real Simple * “A beautiful story about an extraordinary mother’s gift of love and hope.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle * “ Candid...Heartbreaking...Illuminating. ” — Oprah Daily From “a writer who’s absolutely going places” (Roxane Gay), a “ bewitching...innovative ” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illn