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father-daughter relationships

Posted inNonfiction

One Man’s Poison

by Kyoko Mori September 2, 2019January 27, 2023

The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.

Posted inNonfiction

Finding My Father

by Natassja Schiel August 5, 2019February 3, 2023

At age thirty-two, after years working as an exotic dancer, the daughter of a mysteriously absentee father finally puts together the pieces that had been missing her whole life.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Species of Grief

by Sari Botton May 1, 2019October 19, 2022

In the wake of losing both her father and her dog in the space of six months, Meghan Daum muses on different experiences of loss, grief, time and aging.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Family Animals

by Sari Botton April 10, 2019October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her new memoir, The Body Papers, Grace Talusan fondly remembers the badly behaved dog that won her skeptical father’s heart.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life

by Madhushree Ghosh April 10, 2019November 7, 2022

Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Memoirs of a Used Car Salesman’s Daughter

by Nancy A. Nichols March 26, 2019October 19, 2022

Hearses, limousines, Detroit’s newest model — cars marked many milestones in Nancy Nichols’ life of heartache and family deception.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Everything is Fine

by Sari Botton March 14, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life, as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Everything is Fine

by Sara Fredman March 14, 2019October 19, 2022

Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Everything is Fine

by Sara Fredman March 14, 2019October 19, 2022

Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Even the Dogs

by Sari Botton March 4, 2019February 22, 2023

In an excerpt from her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.

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