Not Just My Mother’s Daughter is the memoir behind the research. Dr. Steele tells the story of how she and her mother, Jenny, both became unmothered daughters, and how the two of them reconciled ten months before Jenny’s passing.

What follows is an honest account of grief: mourning a mother while still feeling motherless, and learning who she is without her here. That season reinforced Dr. Steele’s identity as a child of God, even in the moments she felt motherless.

As the lived experience behind her research, Unmothered by Black Mothers, this memoir offers the story that came first, along with language and companionship for daughters carrying their own mother wounds.

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