Matriarch: A Memoir
She delves deeper into her own backstory than ever before ... It is clear from the title of her memoir that Knowles is keen to examine the female lineage, what it means to be a mother and how to find your identity as a woman both within and beyond those definitions ... Knowles finally becomes the star of her own story.
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Dishes no dirt on Beyoncé (or Solange) ... Refusing to sell your children out is laudable, and Knowles certainly comes out looking classy ... But there’s more to recommend Matriarch than what Knowles leaves out ... Reads, in part, as Knowles’s effort to figure out who she is on her own terms. But it also has a less introspective purpose: by fixing herself and her daughters in the sweep of American history — links in a chain of matriarchs — Knowles is securing the narrative of her dynasty.
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Beyoncé is the least interesting part of her mother’s moving memoir ... Gossips may be disappointed, but the woman who raised the world’s most famous entertainer has written a rags-to-riches story for the ages.
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