The Meaning of Daughter - Paperback
The Meaning of Daughter - Paperback
Description
by Alexia Nader (Author)
After immigrating from Lebanon to Haiti as a young girl, Merjan comes of age in an insular, conservative community, where it seems as though her sole escape is marriage. Striking a bargain with a young art dealer, she marries and dreams of becoming a painter, only to discover her husband's support tethered with expectations.
In the late 1970s, Merjan's daughter Yvonne is a young woman on the cusp of a marriage of convenience. Though resentful of her mother, Yvonne dreams of establishing a Haitian art gallery in New York with the help of a well-connected older man--but her time there ends disastrously, creating a deep rift between her and her family.
In the present day, Yvonne's daughter Eva is a student whose art draws inspiration from her grandmother Merjan's largely undiscovered work. When Eva becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she moves back to her childhood home in Miami to sort out her ambivalent feelings, where she finds her family upended by feuds. An intimate family saga, The Meaning of Daughter explores questions about maternal ambivalence, ambition, artmaking, and how desire resists gendered expectations.
Author Biography
Alexia Nader's writing has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among others. Nader lives in San Francisco, California.
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