How to Love Your Daughter -- Hila Blum - Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?

Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she's never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years.

At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman's quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss--a mother besotted with her only child--arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that in ensemble may have undermined what she most treasured. With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it's possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it--and uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.

Author: Hila Blum
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.87w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780593539644

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2023 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2023
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 31

About the Author
Hila Blum is the author of the Israeli bestsellers The Visit and How to Love Your Daughter, which won the Sapir Prize. She is also a book editor. She lives in Jerusalem, where she was born and raised.