Mothers & Daughters by Rae Meadows

Spanning three generations of women bound by love, loss, and the quiet echoes of the past, Mothers & Daughters is a deeply moving exploration of inheritance—of both the burdens and the grace passed from one life to the next. After the death of her mother, Samantha uncovers fragments of a history she never knew: a story that begins in the tenements of early twentieth-century New York and reaches into the modern struggles of motherhood and identity.

Rae Meadows writes with poetic restraint and emotional clarity, tracing how a single choice can reverberate across generations. Tender, powerful, and beautifully written, this is a novel about forgiveness, memory, and the invisible thread that ties every daughter to the mother who came before her.