"Oprah's Book Club, 2025"-- Cover.

The mother tree -- Prelude: under the pecan tree -- Act one: a daughter. Badass Tenie B ; Galveston ; Weeks island ; Holy rosary ; Claiming our power ; Dreaming within the lines ; Hellhounds on our trail ; Ladies and gentlemen, the Veltones ; An education in liberation ; Before I let go ; Golden hour ; Return of the prodigal daughter ; Into the undercurrent ; The persistence of fate -- Act two: a mother. Bloodline ; Jazz baby ; It goes by fast ; Order my steps ; Headliners ; Parkwood ; "Those little Knowles girls" ; Lessons in survival ; Three girls ; Bread of life ; The loss is the fuel ; Three sisters ; The dolls ; Mother of invention ; Naming their destiny ; A way out of no way ; The style it takes ; Johnny ; New beginnings ; "Tina is the problem" ; Twenty-first-century women ; Eyes lifted to the mountains ; Joy and pain ; Contemporary American landscapes ; In my fashion ; Before and after ; Frenchy's and veuve clicquot ; The distant beat of wings -- Act three: a woman. What becomes of the broken-hearted? ; Soul survivor ; Single in the city ; Get your groove back ; Ready for love ; Louisiana roots ; Tina's angels ; Capri moon ; Cover it with crystals ; Choosing me ; Reading the margins -- Finale: the waves at Malibu.

"Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M: a determined, self-possessed, self-aware, and wise woman who raised and inspired some of the great artists of our time. But this story is about so much more than that. Matriarch begins with a precocious, if unruly, little girl growing up in 1950s Galveston, the youngest of seven. She is in love with her world, with extended family on every other porch and the sounds of Motown and the lapping beach always within earshot. But as the realities of race and the limitations of girlhood set in, she begins to dream of the world beyond. Her instincts and impulsive nature drive her far beyond the shores of Texas to discover the life awaiting her on the other side of childhood. That life's journey-through grief and tragedy, creative and romantic risks and turmoil, the nurturing of superstar offspring and of her own special gifts-is the remarkable story she shares with readers here. This is a page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance, and of the kind of creativity, audacity, and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world. It's 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"--Provided by publisher.