Somebody's Daughter
By Ashley C. Ford
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books (Macmillan)
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781250305978
Somebody's Daughter is a debut memoir by the writer Ashley C. Ford, published by Flatiron Books in June 2021. It recounts her childhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana, her relationship with her incarcerated father, and her coming of age. An instant New York Times bestseller, it was a National Book...
Ashley C. Ford grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, loving a father she barely knew, because he was in prison for reasons no one would explain to her. Somebody's Daughter builds toward the revelation of his crime while telling a fuller story of Black girlhood, poverty, a complicated mother and a body learning to claim its own desire. Ford is a generous, immediate writer, and the memoir moves on the strength of her voice - warm, searching, unwilling to flatten anyone into hero or villain. intendle recommends it as a coming-of-age story about the questions families keep and the cost of keeping them. An instant New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, it announced a distinctive new memoirist. Honest about shame and tender toward its younger self, it turns one family's silence into something spacious and clear.