The Meaning of Daughter, the debut novel by Alexia Nader, follows three generations of women navigating ambition, motherhood, and constraint, as each attempts to define herself through art, love, and autonomy within the expectations placed on her. As their choices reverberate across decades and geographies, the novel examines how desire, resentment, and inherited dreams fracture and reshape a family.
The Meaning of Daughter will be published on September 15, 2026, by University of Iowa Press and is available for preorder now.
Nader is originally from Miami and currently lives in San Francisco.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of The Meaning of Daughter, designed by Kathleen Lynch, along with a Q&A with Nader about its creation.
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