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Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting … when the book ended, I only wanted more – Roxane Gay

Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody s Daughter will be a book of the year – Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

Truly a classic in the making – John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

An Oprah book

Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford doesn t know how to deal 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

A heart-wrenching coming-of age story – Time

Her coming-of-age story gets at how to both acknowledge and break away from what we re born into – Cosmopolitan

A beautiful, delicate memoir… a journey toward true and powerful selfhood – Elle