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.
father-daughter relationships
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Finding My Father
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.
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Species of Grief
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.
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Family Animals
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
Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.
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Memoirs of a Used Car Salesman’s Daughter
Hearses, limousines, Detroit’s newest model — cars marked many milestones in Nancy Nichols’ life of heartache and family deception.
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Everything is Fine
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
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
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
In an excerpt from her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.