INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A glorious chronicle of a life like none other - enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering - and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood
A beautiful and brave story of strong women, fierce mothering, and the power of continued evolution.
- Michelle Obama
A fascinating memoir of Tina Knowles’s journey to become the global figure she is today.
- Oprah Winfrey
Told in rich color with flourishes so detailed… they conjure a fully realized world the reader can inhabit.
- The Washington Post
Here is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, loss and perseverance, and the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world. Matriarch is one brilliant woman’s intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America - and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations.