Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Memoir is one of the top-selling categories of adult nonfiction and adult nonfiction sales have continued to increase while adult fiction sales decline.

Google searches for the essential mother-daughter relationship, from unhealthy and toxic ones to resilient and enduring ones, top the charts, with tens of millions seeking constant information and answers.

Most parents compare themselves to the way they were parented. 72% of parents want their own parents to think they are doing a good job raising their children.

Multi-generational living is on the rise, with feminist grandmothers helping their daughters find the work/life balance they may not have had.

About one third of women in America have young children living at home; these women will likely compare their parenting style to their mothers, and they will struggle with work/life balance.

Somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of people's emotional needs were not met in childhood.

More than ever, families are visiting all-inclusive resorts. The Saturdays Childs family resort was a yearly tradition.

30 percent of young people are classified as narcissistic according to a widely used psychological test. That number has doubled in the last 30 years.

AUDIENCE:

Baby boomer women

Millennial daughters of baby boomer mothers, particularly high-achieving ones

Anyone who was raised by a narcissistic parent

Women with complex mother relationships or who felt unloved by their mothers

Anyone who is an only child

Anyone who has vowed to parent differently than he or she was parented

Anyone who has struggled with identity issues

Anyone who has searched for their authentic self, purpose, and meaning in midlife

Women who read memoirs

Reviews

2020 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Memoir
2020 International Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir
2020 CIBA Journey Book Awards Finalist
2020 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Autobiography/Memoir (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel)
2019/2020 Reader Views Silver Winner in Memoir/Biography
2019 Best Book Awards Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir

Devilishly sharp a masterful balance of psychological excavation and sumptuous description.
Kirkus Reviews

Poignant and absorbing, Saturdays Child carefully examines how a daughters childhood obsession became a more complicated reckoning with her mothers secrets.
Booklist

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 best-selling author of Somebodys Daughter

In her searingly honest memoir, Deborah Burns unpacks what it means to be the daughter of a mistaken-for-a-movie-star mother who refuses to be defeated by life, no matter its disappointments. At once painful and uplifting, and rich with period detail, you will fall in love with both generations.
Sally Koslow, international best-selling author of Another Side of Paradise

With a journalists eye and a poets hand, the author conveys the unique texture of her glamorous mothers elusive love. Heartbreaking and hopeful, searing and soulful, Saturdays Child is unputdownablethis generations Terms of Endearment.
Meghann Foye, author of Meternity

A cinematic memoir that reads like fiction, with lush, elegant prose that belies a raw, honest narrative of a daughter coming to terms with the narcissistic mother whom she idealized. An unforgettable journey of discovery, understanding, and self-love.
Lisa Anselmo, author of My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home

A universal tale of family and the quest for belonging; of reconciling the secrets we keep with the desire for truth; and of discovering that the unconditional love we all crave from others can ultimately be found inside ourselves.
Holly C. Corbett, author of The Lost Girls

Mesmerizing. A must-read for any daughter who's ever tried to figure out where her mother ends and she begins.
Lynnda Pollio, author of Trusting the Currents

A beautifully written love letter to a fascinating mother. I was immediately drawn in by both the prose and the mysteries at the heart of this unique mother-daughter relationship.
Andrea Jarrell, author of National Book Critics Circle Award-nominee I'm the One Who Got Away

Riveting and affecting; timeless and timelya stunning debut.
Bethany Ball, author of What to Do About the Solomons

A poignant, candid exploration of the bond between mother and daughter. In allowing herself to see her mother as a real person, flaws and all, Burns not only sets herself freeshe shows the rest of us how to do the same.
Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mothers Suicide

Deborah Burns fearlessly reveals the hidden truths of a compelling and challenging mother-daughter relationship. Vividly written and thoroughly rewarding!
Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence, Molloy College, and author of Pulitzer Prizenominated J.W. Valentine

In this captivating memoir, the relationship between an unconventional and fiercely independent mother and the daughter who idolized her is revealed in all its complexity. A story of identity, self-discovery, and forgiveness.
Jennifer Kitses, author of Small Hours

A heartfelt tale of love, honor, and becoming ... wise and wonderful.
Agapi Stassinopolous, author of Wake Up to the Joy of You

Author Bio

Deborah Burns is a former Chief Innovation Office and brand leader for ELLEgirl, ELLE Dcor, Metropolitan Home, and ELLE Global Marketing. Now a media industry consultant, she helps brands, executives, and professional women reinvent themselves through her expertise, coaching process, and website, skirtingtherules.com, which she founded. Beneath her business leader exterior, however, always beat the heart of a writer, and several years ago she began the creative journey to write Saturdays Child and tell her mothers story. She lives on Long Island, New York with her husband and their three children.