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jacquiemc 's review for:
Matriarch: A Memoir
by Tina Knowles
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Tina Knowles knows how to tell a good story. Her journey to being a matriarch begins in Louisiana where we begin to understand the distinct familial culture that shaped her. She traced her matriarchal lineage back to her enslaved ancestors and we see how knowing and hearing those stories affected her.
It’s important to realize that this is a story of how and why she became the family matriarch— much more than being Solange and Beyoncé‘s mother. We learn how and why Tina renamed and claimed herself. We understand how she created a family that was more expensive than the two children she gave birth to we get a clear view of her values and the values of the larger family.
Tina spends a lot of time telling the story of her marriage to Matthew Knowles, the father of Solange and Beyoncé. She spends less time on her 10 year marriage to Richard. That makes sense to me since her relationship with him was less central to the story of how she Created her role as matriarch. I enjoyed the memoir and felt that it went beyond gossipy stories about Beyoncé. For this, I was grateful.
It’s important to realize that this is a story of how and why she became the family matriarch— much more than being Solange and Beyoncé‘s mother. We learn how and why Tina renamed and claimed herself. We understand how she created a family that was more expensive than the two children she gave birth to we get a clear view of her values and the values of the larger family.
Tina spends a lot of time telling the story of her marriage to Matthew Knowles, the father of Solange and Beyoncé. She spends less time on her 10 year marriage to Richard. That makes sense to me since her relationship with him was less central to the story of how she Created her role as matriarch. I enjoyed the memoir and felt that it went beyond gossipy stories about Beyoncé. For this, I was grateful.