Ashley C. Ford

(Flatiron Books, June), a debut memoir about a childhood framed and fragmented by a father’s incarceration; the story of a girl figuring out who she is and who she will be while navigating the turbulence of a single mother and an absent father. Maria Massie. Bryn Clark. “‘Just remember, you can always come home.’ There it was. I expected and hated when my mother said those words. Two years before this call, I’d moved to Brooklyn from