Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimbery McCreight

Knopf (July 30, 2024)

Psychological Fiction

When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks.

Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo . . .

Like Mother, Like Daughter is a thrilling novel of emotional suspense that questions the damaging fictions we cling to and the hard truths we avoid. Above all, it’s a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before it’s too late.

BUY LINKS

Like Mother, Like Daughter – Kimberly McCreight

“I’m going to do what Mom would do if I were missing. I’m going to help find her.”

“Once she was born I was never not afraid.” Joan Didion, Blue Nights

REVIEW

A page turner of domestic thriller of estranged relationship between a mother and daughter. Told in the POV’s of the daughter Cleo and the mother Kat. As the story progresses, Cleo recognizes her mother sacrifices over the years, uncovers clues about her mother’s childhood, and her parents’ relationship. Kat’s POV is told in the days leading up to her disappearance with a few subplots. I did not guess the perpetrator at all which furthered my reading enjoyment.

Reviewed by Comfy Chair Books/Lisa Reigel

Borrowed from Public Library

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels including RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, A GOOD MARRIAGE and LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER. She’s been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Alex awards, her books translated into more than twenty languages and optioned for film and television. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters.