“With a journalist's eye and a poet’s hand, the author unveils the unique texture of her glamorous mother's elusive love. Heartbreaking and hopeful, searing and soulful, Saturday's Child is un-put-downable—this generation's Terms of Endearment.”
—Meghann Foye, author of Meternity
An only child, Deborah Burns grew up in the shadow of her other-worldly beautiful, mysterious, narcissistic mother whose love always seemed just beyond her grasp. Her eccentric upbringing only made Deborah worship her maverick mother more, and she happily danced around the pedestal of her maternal goddessuntil her mother, Dorothy, died prematurely. The center of Deborah’s universe disappeared, leaving behind an ever-present void. Twenty years later in her own midlife, Deborah set out to reclaim her own identity by discovering the truth about the mother she idealized and their complex relationship. A fascinating, powerful description of the searing bond between mothers and daughters, “Saturday’s Child” is a mesmerizing, eye-opening read for any daughter who ever tried to figure out where her mother ends and she begins.
“Saturday's Child delicately unfolds a fascinating mother-daughter bond loaded with the realities of perfection, perception, identity, and the choices we make. An intergenerational story for the ages."
—Rochelle Weinstein, USA Today bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter
