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daughters

Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women

Someone Called Mother

by Max March 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Their mothers were secrets, right up until their deaths.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Looking Inside My Heart

by Jen Hyde November 27, 2018October 19, 2022

Jen Hyde discovered that her heart valve was made by women working in a factory near her childhood home. Getting to know them brought her closer to her own mother.

Posted inFeatured

The Problem of Pain

by Leslie Kendall Dye November 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Pain is indeed inherited, but treating it as an affliction need not be handed down from generation to generation.

Posted inFeatured, Story

The Problem of Pain

by Leslie Kendall Dye November 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Pain is indeed inherited, but treating it as an affliction need not be handed down from generation to generation.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

All the Language in the World Won’t Make a Bookshelf Exist

by Longreads June 21, 2015October 19, 2022

After leaving a drag-and-click job at a newspaper to learn carpentry, Nina MacLaughlin takes on her first big solo project: building bookshelves for her father.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction

All the Language in the World Won’t Make a Bookshelf Exist

by Longreads June 21, 2015October 19, 2022

After leaving a drag-and-click job at a newspaper to learn carpentry, Nina MacLaughlin takes on her first big solo project: building bookshelves for her father.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Fairyland: Memories of a Singular San Francisco Girlhood

by juliawick May 20, 2015October 19, 2022

Alysia Abbott recalls being raised by her poet father—a single, openly gay man—in the San Francisco of the nineteen-seventies and eighties.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

How to Tell Your Children and Friends That Your Father Is a Serial Killer

by juliawick February 25, 2015October 19, 2022

Recently, Roy Wenzl profiled a woman named Kerri Rawson for The Wichita Eagle. Rawson’s life was upended a decade ago, when an FBI agent knocked on her door and informed her that the man she’d always known as a loving father was in fact the BTK serial killer. Wenzl’s piece is a compelling and meticulous portrait of a […]

Posted inUncategorized
by Longreads October 28, 2012October 19, 2022

“When A Daughter Dies.” — Michael Levitt, Freaknonomics

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