Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

by Bernice L. McFadden

From award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters.

On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593184971
• ISBN13: 9780593184974
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 400 Pages