Somebody's Daughter: The International Bestseller and an Amazon.com book of 2021

Somebody's Daughter is a powerful memoir by Roxane Gay that explores the author's adolescence and search for self-identity after discovering her father's incarceration. The book is praised for its searing honesty, beautiful writing, and deep emotional impact. It is considered a classic in the making and has received widespread critical acclaim.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting, Roxane Gay's Somebody's Daughter is a literary masterpiece that will leave readers craving for more. Ford is a writer for the ages, and this book is destined to be a book of the year.

Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed, praises Somebody's Daughter as a truly classic in the making. John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, also hails it as an Oprah book, stating that it is a must-read for anyone who loves great literature.

Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford struggles to cope with the worries that keep her up at night. If only she could turn to her father for his advice and support. But he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there.

After being raped by her ex-boyfriend, Ashley desperately searches for her sense of self. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father's incarceration, and Ashley's world is turned upside down.

Ashley embarks on a powerful journey to find the connections between who she is and what she was born into, discovering that, however much we might try to untether ourselves from a painful past, the ties that bind families together are the strongest ones of all.

Sure to be one of the best memoirs of 2021, Kirkus Reviews praises Somebody's Daughter as a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story. Time also hails it as a powerful and relatable tale of self-discovery.

Her coming-of-age story gets at how to both acknowledge and break away from what we're born into, as Cosmopolitan puts it. Elle describes it as a beautiful, delicate memoir, a journey toward true and powerful selfhood.

Weight: 170g
Dimension: 129 x 196 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786581273