The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
'A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all the women in your life' MICHELLE OBAMA
'A work of art' OPRAH
To understand the icons Beyonce, Solange and Kelly, you have to understand where they came from... A deeply personal and revelatory memoir by Ms Tina Knowles - as you've never seen her before.
Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: the woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that.
For the first time ever, Tina Knowles shares her remarkable story in Matriarch. A life of grief and tragedy, love and heartbreak, the nurturing of her superstar daughters - and the perseverance and audacity it takes for a girl from Galveston, Texas to change the world.
This intimate and revealing memoir is a multigenerational family saga and a celebration of the wisdom that women, mothers and daughters pass on to each other across generations.
A glorious chronicle of a life like none other and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood.
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A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all the women in your life. -- Michelle Obama A work of art. -- Oprah Winfrey In Matriarch, her touching, surprisingly beautiful memoir, Knowles weaves together a rich tapestry of a life defined by providing love . . . Matriarch encapsulates the hypocrisies of the American Dream while eventually turning into an ode to its possibilities. -- Poppie Platt * Telegraph * A gifted storyteller who weaves together intergenerational narratives into an impressively cohesive whole...Throughout Matriarch, such scrupulous accounts of systemic discrimination and violence paint a vivid picture of a topic that can otherwise feel hard to grasp - one of the book's greatest strengths...What makes Beyonce Beyonce, Tina Tina, or you you? Matriarch poses big, pertinent questions, and the answers it offers are largely thoughtful. Packing plenty of wisdom even if neither you nor your progeny are global superstars, Matriarch insists on the multiplicity in us all - daughter, woman, mother, no matter how we came to be that way. -- Emily Watkins * iNews * Knowles has a keen eye for both the overall shape of a tale and the tiny sensory details that will connect readers to it . . . As a mother, I closed this book in awe of Knowles' hard grafting, hard loving, open minded and humbly accountable parenting ethos. No wonder her girls grew up to feel they could run the world. -- Helen Brown * Independent * A touching tale of growing up in the US south. * The Times * A mother memoir that, like Knowles herself, stands proud in a lineage of singular excellence. -- India Block * Standard *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 126 mm
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978-0-349-70363-3 (9780349703633)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
TINA KNOWLES is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, art collector and activist. She helped guide Destiny's Child-the music group comprised of Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams-to global commercial success. With her daughter Beyonce she cofounded and ran the House of Dereon, a clothing line named for her mother, later adding the Miss Tina line, which revolutionized size inclusivity. In 2024, she helped to create Cecred, Beyonce's haircare line. Her philanthropic portfolio includes the nonprofit performing arts organization WACO Theater Center; The Knowles-Rowland Center for Youth in Houston; and Tina's Angels, her thriving mentoring program for at-risk youth in South Central Los Angeles. She serves as chairwoman of BeyGOOD, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing economic equity through a wide array of initiatives. Tina Knowles is a grandmother of six and a matriarch to many.
