This is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson Architecture seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained

seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence

his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination

” —Katherine Applegate

This is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson Architecture seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remainedNamed a Best Memoir of 2025 (So Far) by BookPage and Real Simple * A beautiful story about an extraordinary mothers gift of love and hope. Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle * Candid Heartbreaking Illuminating. Oprah Daily From a writer whos absolutely going places (Roxane Gay), a bewitching innovative (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut memoir about a mother daughter relationship across cycles of poverty,