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How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. 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In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers.Today we have only Bad Mothers.If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you're spending their college fund; if you don't, you're risking all sorts of allergies and illnesses.Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as \"a bad mother\"? Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary \"Modern Love\" piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children.Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?), the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police, balancing the work-family dynamic, and the bane of every mother's existence (homework, that is), Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx294e7p57mf2qqewbpdyx8v.jpg?v=d25f3af4c2","LBNd%gxG77WZY8tRxtt61SWBrpj]",2009,213,[402],{"id":403,"slug":404,"name":405},"01kph46ag4wr9n2masb0c0rh7h","ayelet-waldman-d8ha","Ayelet 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Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of \"the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing.\" Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cadddmbj46cs9hrb1a6xc.jpg?v=193235435c","LZN*?vRQ-pxu_OxtRPWB*|RQWVWB",2004,308,[551],{"id":552,"slug":553,"name":554},"01kkvp6860rrg5ndfky7h5ps64","paul-monette-syxx","Paul Monette",[556],{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":200,"complexity":7,"audience":140,"mood":559,"themes":561,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[143,560,516],"nostalgic",[],{"id":563,"slug":564,"title":565,"description":566,"primary_cover_url":567,"cover_blurhash":568,"first_publish_year":569,"community_rating_avg":378,"community_rating_count":98,"page_count":312,"authors":570,"genres":575,"series":582,"enrichment":583},"01kx29j5nzv4n7cnhrv3c3h00t","three-little-words-tijf","Three Little Words","Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. 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See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx29j5pf5b1h2103gvmhn869.jpg?v=5bbe2ddfc7","LI8g~%*0%3aJVrITV@XSH=Mcf6oz",2008,[571],{"id":572,"slug":573,"name":574},"01kr0srgegjn0ee4zxyapfcz43","ashley-rhodes-courter-adag","Ashley Rhodes-Courter",[576,577,581],{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},{"id":578,"name":579,"slug":580,"is_fiction":16},33,"Contemporary Romance","contemporary-romance",{"id":174,"name":175,"slug":176,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":250,"complexity":7,"audience":140,"mood":584,"themes":585,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[277,202],[],{"id":351,"slug":352,"title":353,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":354,"cover_blurhash":355,"first_publish_year":356,"community_rating_avg":212,"community_rating_count":98,"page_count":357,"authors":587,"genres":589,"series":592,"enrichment":593},[588],{"id":360,"slug":361,"name":362},[590,591],{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},{"id":174,"name":175,"slug":176,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":137,"complexity":7,"audience":140,"mood":594,"themes":595,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[143,202],[],{"id":205,"slug":206,"title":207,"description":208,"primary_cover_url":209,"cover_blurhash":210,"first_publish_year":211,"community_rating_avg":212,"community_rating_count":98,"page_count":213,"authors":597,"genres":599,"series":603,"enrichment":604},[598],{"id":216,"slug":217,"name":218},[600,601,602],{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":17},{"id":174,"name":175,"slug":176,"is_fiction":17},{"id":223,"name":224,"slug":225,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":137,"complexity":7,"audience":140,"mood":605,"themes":606,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[202,143],[],{"id":608,"slug":609,"title":610,"description":611,"primary_cover_url":612,"cover_blurhash":613,"first_publish_year":286,"community_rating_avg":378,"community_rating_count":98,"page_count":614,"authors":615,"genres":620,"series":624,"enrichment":625},"01kx2bk08tj3mt47crfa5kcsk4","long-live-the-tribe-of-fatherless-girls-ucyq","Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls","\"The book I wish I'd had growing up.\" —Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist: NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Lambda Literary Award New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade Elle Best Books of the Season Washington Post Best Books of the Month Indie Next Pick Indies Introduce Pick \"A fearless debut.\" — New York Times \"[A] gorgeous reckoning.\" — Washington Post \"Flat out breathtaking.\" — Lit Hub \"Gripping and gloriously written.\" — Elle \"Utterly unforgettable.\" — NYLON \"Unnervingly satisfying.\" — Oprah Magazine \"Deeply compassionate.\" —NPR.org \"Truly stunning.\" — Cosmopolitan Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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We already know that E. Jean Carroll looked smashing when she went to court versus Donald J. Trump. But her irrepressible voice was, necessarily, repressed...Now she is saying pretty much everything.\" —The New York Times Book Review \"Buoyant.\" —The New York Times A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob? Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box. You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with”—a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. 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