Daughter Detox

by Peg Streep

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  S ince my bio is on the back of the book and available elsewhere, I figure you don’t need to hear about how I trained in literature, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and worked in publishing, right? Or that this is my 12th book—if you don’t count my anthologies—and that I’ve been researching and writing about mothers and daughters for just short of twenty years? Okay, here’s what a Google search won’t tell you.

  I’m a first-generation American who never felt she totally belonged or was quite American enough, especially since Dutch was spoken at home and I spent my first 15 summers in Europe. I didn’t celebrate the Fourth of July until I was 16! Since I also had an unloving mother who made me feel as though I didn’t belong in my own family, my sense of not belonging was pretty intense. The death of my father when I was 15 only made me feel more singled out. But interestingly, that feeling of being outside, looking in, has been a boon to me as a writer, and fuels my passion for this subject and real empathy for the daughters and sons who also share that sense of not belonging.

  I am committed to getting a fruitful dialogue going about mothering, and an admission from the culture that maybe thinking of all mothers as loving isn’t helpful. And that verbal and emotional abuse are every bit as harmful and damaging as a slap, punch, or worse. I happen to believe that the silence that surrounds these subjects hobbles mothers who are really trying their best and know they’re falling short but are too ashamed to ask for help, while isolating daughters who have a story to tell and who deserve to be heard. In truth, mothers can be cruel, heartless, and punitive, and it’s about time we collectively acknowledge that fact. I am also given to rants, as you may already have noticed.

  Other random things about me you won’t find out from a Google search:

  ♦ I’m someone who loves a cityscape more than a mountain view, but I love gardening .

  ♦ I wish I had been married fewer times and had been more successful at it.

  ♦ I am a collector of beautiful objects, plants, art, and jewelry.

  ♦ I do love to write, and I find p
eople and their stories endlessly interesting.

  ♦ I love research and libraries.

  ♦ I read lots of poetry, both to relax and to stir up my thinking.

  ♦ I love Lifetime movies and chick flicks, as well as serious cinema. There are movies I have seen so often that, hearing just the music, I can recite whole stretches of dialogue.

  ♦ I dream of living in Paris or, alternatively, La Jolla, California. That shows a soul in conflict. The likelihood is that I will stay on my granite island where I was born, bounded by the Hudson and an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, for the foreseeable future.

  You can find me on Facebook

  (www.Facebook.com/PegStreepAuthor )

  and at www.pegstreep.com .