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Ashley C. Ford Explores Love and Longing in Her Memoir ‘Somebody’s Daughter’

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated writer and podcaster Ashley C. Ford grew up knowing that her father was in prison, but she never knew the reason why. As she writes in her new memoir “Somebody’s Daughter,” she found herself confronting the truth about her father’s crime while coping with her own devastating trauma. The book chronicles Ford’s upbringing in a tight-knit, Black family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a place she eventually had to leave to find herself and create a career out of writing. We’ll talk to Ford about her memoir and journey as a writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, writer Ashley Seaford grew up knowing that her father was in prison,

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but not knowing why.

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And as she shares in her new memoir, Somebody's Daughter, she found out about her father's

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crime, rape, just months after she had

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been sexually assaulted. Ford grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and we'll talk with her

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about what she's learned and lived through on her journey to becoming a celebrated writer

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This is Forum.

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I'm Nina Kim. Ashley Ford's father was in prison for 30 years from the time that she was a year old. Ford's mother worked extremely hard to support her and her three siblings, but she could be rough and cruel. And when Ford was 13, she was raped. All of this, Ford shares in her brilliant new memoir titled

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Somebody's Daughter. And her memoir is as much about these things as it is about joy and hope

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and love. Ashley Ford, welcome to Forum. Hi, Mina. Thank you so much for having me.

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Well, we're so glad to have you. I have heard you say that you want to put more love out into the world. And why? Where does that desire come from?

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