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by Emily Adrian (Author)
Emily Adrian is determined to see her mother Ellen clearly. Part memoir, part autofiction, and part interview, Daughterhood charts a map of Ellen's life before and after she became Emily's mother. As a high schooler, Ellen lived alone in a trailer park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. At eighteen, she had a job counting wild horses in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. She was engaged three times before her twenty-first birthday and finally married in the Salt Lake Temple--but her Mormon husband left her when he found her birth control pills. For the author, these stories were half-forgotten folklore until she had a child of her own. Overwhelmed and challenged by motherhood, Emily turns a novelistic eye toward the woman who raised her.
Author Biography
Emily Adrian is the author of several novels. Her work has appeared in Granta, Joyland, EPOCH, Alta Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her family.
