#cursed daughters

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite (2025)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJan 14

[cozygurlll]

I’ve been reading this book at the park lately 📖 🌳

[the-final-sentence]

And if there was ever a sign that she alone was the owner of her body, this was it.

Oyinkan Braithwaite, from Cursed Daughters

[untalented-but-opinionated]

Books I Loved In 2025: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Twelve-year-old Ebun told sixteen-year-old Monife that she didn't believe in curses. "That's fine" said Monife, between the slow chewing of gum, "but what if the curse believes in you?"

[andreabadgley]

Omg this wine is amazing. My final bottle I brought home from Spain. 🇪🇸 I unknowingly saved the best for last Carmelo Rodero 9 meses 2023. Fucking delicious. My book is also good.

[auncyen]

I just finished Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite. It follows several generations of women who are supposedly cursed to never be able to keep a man in a relationship; the structure was pretty interesting because it jumps around in sections that follow a specific woman (and gives at the start of the section what time period it's over), with the sections further broken into chapters, and nearly every chapter is a single detailed scene, to the point where it was pretty notable in later chapters that had a second (usually short) scene.

Also has a hilarious and touching brief description of a sibling responding to another sibling's depression with "okay, you can't find the motivation to get out of bed and take care of yourself, so I am going to lie down in your room too until my smell bothers you enough to make you get up"

[beganavagabond007]

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

[clover-spins-books]

5⭐️

Cursed daughters was a genius metaphor for generational trauma. I got swept into trying to figure out if the family's misfortunes were from the curse or trauma passed down from the women before. Was there ever really a curse to begin with?