How to Love Your Daughter

Hila Blum

The unforgettable story of an estranged mother and daughter, and the mistakes that tore their family apart

A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of her only daughter.

At the center of this brilliant novel is a small family – mother, daughter, and father, in this order, a family whose mistakes, made in the name of love, accumulate gradually to create an unforgettable psychological drama.

With clarity and sharpness, Hila Blum examines the delicate crevices of a mother’s love for her daughter, those that we want to see and those that we would rather deny. Blum draws an intimate road map which exposes the limits of our capacity to direct and to control the fate of our children.

Death Valley Melissa Broder

From the Women’s Prize­longlisted authorofThePiscesand MilkFed, a dark andfunnynovelaboutgriefandsurvivalintheCaliforniadesert

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow — for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike.

Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.

This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels The Pisces and Milk Fed, the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize for poetry, she has written for the New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut.

22 August 2023

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Hila Blum is a native of Jerusalem, but has also lived in Hawaii, Paris and New York. A former journalist, for the past fourteen years she has worked as an editor at one of Israel’s leading publishing houses. Her first novel, The Visit, was shortlisted for the 2012 Sapir Prize. How to Love Your Daughter won the same prize in 2022.