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A review by moholub
How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum
4.0
This book is summed up in one poignant quote: "worry is a straitjacket, and so is love."
Blum's masterfully crafted tale of a mother-daughter relationship steadily pulls you under the water of their estrangement. Told in non-linear vignettes, the narrator over analyzes and dissects and drowns in the moments that make up her daughter's life, both big and small, trying to figure out where it all went wrong. She never quite settles on an answer, instead rattling around a larger question: can love ever be pure, or does it always carry consequences?
Blum's masterfully crafted tale of a mother-daughter relationship steadily pulls you under the water of their estrangement. Told in non-linear vignettes, the narrator over analyzes and dissects and drowns in the moments that make up her daughter's life, both big and small, trying to figure out where it all went wrong. She never quite settles on an answer, instead rattling around a larger question: can love ever be pure, or does it always carry consequences?