"Carol Becker has written a tender, deeply nuanced portrayal of a father and daughter's evolving relationship, rich with love, betrayal, and the ruptures brought by shifting identities and a transforming New York City. Her poetic prose, suffused with details, romance and heartache, stayed with me long after reading."

-Ramin Bahrani, Oscar-nominated,

writer-director, filmmaker

"After having written about attainable empowerment among women in mediating changes toward growth in The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change; grieving over the death of her beloved mother in Losing Helen; Carol Becker, once again, has resourced her "amor fati" to confront impending personal issues with her father in George's Daughter-her trilogy as it were. Suffused with compelling prose, emphatic clarity, and eventual compassion, her personal reconciliation through the arts and humanities as healing agents, mirrors our own."

-Phong H. Bui, Publisher, Artistic Director

of The Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions,

and Rail Curatorial Projects

"This book is not just a beautifully written memoir. It's a story about the human condition. Neatly laid out sentences on pages jumble and leap with the complexities of life, love and loss. A reminder on the fallibility of relationships which traverse landscapes of memory and time, the book is also a journey into the most difficult and human of all possible actions, the act of forgiveness. Could there be a more poignant lesson for this troubled world"?

-Brad Evans, Director of the Centre

for the Study of Violence, University of Bath

"George's Daughter is a journey of return-to Carol Becker's spirited childhood in an intricately drawn Jewish/Catholic family in immigrant Brooklyn and to a complicated yet beloved father. This tender and beautifully written memoir is a rare glimpse into what it means to come to terms with the mixture of love and anger, attachment and heartbreak that makes the ties between daughters and fathers unbreakable."

-Marianne Hirsch, Author of The Generation

of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture

After the Holocaust