A review by mimi242
American Daughter by Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald

4.0

If you are looking for a memoir to read, I just finished this one. It is really good. It is unflinchingly honest and will make your heart hurt, make you furious, but also make you smile. It explains things to change the mom from a one dimensional “bad mom” to an understanding of what caused her mom to splinter apart and to show redemption is possible for some people, but that others are too broken for anything except accepting and loving them, anyway.