Signe Hammer

“[A] searing memoir about the long shadow cast by a mother's suicide.”
"[Contains] hard-won insight into the complexities of family.”
“Beautifully told...a sober, eloquent account...honest and courageous.”
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.

“The first major study of the complex relationship between fathers and daughters.”
“Invokes in the reader of either sex the constellation of feelings and hurts, surprises and delights, in the word ‘Daddy.’”

Through in-depth interviews and a solid grounding in the psychological literature, tells the stories of both daughters and mothers as it follows the relationship from a daughter's birth to mothers and their grown daughters.

“Enlightening, authentic ‘inside’ view of probably most women’s lives in our time.”