How to Love Your Daughter

Hila Blum; translated by Daniella Zamir

Praise for How to Love Your Daughter:

A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Often its sentences are deceptively clear, as transparent and menacing as a swarm of jellyfish. Elsewhere, the tone swerves into humor, even goofiness. What links the two disparate registers, and all those in between, is an unerring authenticity: Every observation, gesture and piece of dialogue rings true. . . . its intrigues and revelations are dramatic enough to be wholly satisfying. Its final pages had me holding my breath. Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review

Mesmerising, disquieting Blum is a virtuoso at stoking unease . [An] unforgettable book.   Guardian

In a similar vein as Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter and Sheila Heti's Motherhood, this gut-punch of a novel  [is] for anyone who s been a daughter, a mother or both.   PureWow

Enthralling. . . . a novel of emotional depth and complexity, at once disturbing and enlightening.   Hadassah Magazine

Riveting. Hand this one to fans of Jenny Offill or those interested in the ambiguities and incongruities of love.   Shelf Awareness

For all its uncanny unanswerability, this is a firmly earthbound, often beautiful, and wholly soul-stirring contemplation of parental love and the effortful, lifelong desire to see beyond the gauze of our own perceptions. Booklist

Moving . . . . This one hits hard. Publishers Weekly

A dissection of misapplied maternal love. . . . part detective story, part morality tale. . . . Deft.   Kirkus Reviews

A mother s adoration of her only child might be commonplace, but it is never simple. Hila Blum explores one particular mother-daughter relationship with remarkable acuity. Her novel takes us on a suspenseful psychological journey as she plumbs a great mystery: how the purest maternal love can lead to the most unwanted and even disastrous consequences.