Name: The History We Carry: A Daughter's Memoir (en Inglés)
SKU: 65760530
Price: 434.27 MXN
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Author: Margaret Whitford
ISBN: 9798896363224

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The History We Carry: A Daughter's Memoir (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

She Writes Press

Autor

Margaret Whitford

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.59x13.97 cm

ISBN13

9798896363224

The History We Carry: A Daughter's Memoir (en Inglés)

Margaret Whitford (Autor) · She Writes Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The History We Carry: A Daughter's Memoir (en Inglés)"

For fans of Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, a memoir for daughters who recognize that to truly understand themselves and the patterns of their lives, they must first understand their mothers and the forces that shaped these women.

When Margaret Whitford’s mother was dying, she told those present that her daughter “had her history.” This was true; Margaret had conducted interviews with her mother during the last decade of her life. But this didn’t end their estrangement, and Margaret chose not to return to her mother’s side during her final days.

In this memoir, Margaret confronts this decision by unearthing in her mother’s traumatic history the roots of the emotional distance between them. She explores how a history marked by the devastation of World War II in Europe, a violent childhood home, and sexual assault accumulated into complex PTSD that shaped her mother and the way she parented Margaret as her firstborn and as a daughter—and, in turn, how Margaret carried her mother’s trauma forward in her sense of self, in her relationships to others, and in the ways she navigated her world. Indeed, Margaret not only had her mother’s history—she embodied it.

Ultimately, The History We Carry confronts the legacy of intergenerational trauma with wisdom and compassion, revealing how familial history shapes each of us but need not be wholly determinative of whom we become and how we choose to live.