Lila Pereira built her life from the ashes of a broken childhood, rising to power as the executive editor of The Washington Globe. Ambitious and unapologetic, she leaves motherhood to her husband while she commands the newsroom and the nation’s attention.
Her daughter Grace grows up in that shadow, craving PTA meetings instead of press briefings, seeking freedom from a mother who shaped her—and resenting how much she resembles her.
But when Grace begins writing a book about Lila, she unearths long-buried family secrets that force her to confront the grandmother she never knew and the truths Lila refused to face.
Susan Rieger’s Like Mother, Like Mother is a witty, incisive portrait of ambition, inheritance, and the complicated legacies passed from one woman to the next.
