The Reluctant Daughter

By Lesléa Newman

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lesbians, fiction, LGBTQ parenting, Fiction, general, Lesbians

Description: A story every daughter will recognize, The Reluctant Daughter depicts the struggles of Lydia Pinkowitz to communicate the realities of her life as a lesbian, as a feminist scholar, and as the woman she has become to her mother Doris. After years of hoping to attain her mother’s love and acceptance while struggling to live a true and honest life, Lydia eventually acknowledges her mother will never really see her. When Doris develops a life-threatening illness, Lydia is forced to make a life-and-death decision of her own: should she make one final attempt to heal her relationship with her mother or simply let her go?