Dale Stanten, discusses her memoir The Hooker’s Daughter: A Boston Family’s Saga

In 1950s Jewish Boston, Dale’s mother established a home-based business as a prostitute to remedy her husband’s inability to provide for his family. At age six, the author was answering the front door for johns. Kids were forbidden to play with her and even the Girl Scouts asked her to leave. What a terrible irony, in a family with so many strange and twisted realities, her gay sister, “coming out” at age 16, was the only thing her parents focused on as contemptible.

This memoir is a story of survival driven by an ability to extract positive qualities from a dysfunctional life. The unconditional love for her mother challenges the reader to examine beyond that which is socially acceptable and identify that which is universal.

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