Leila Farjami: Healing the Mother Wound

This Mama Is Lit! · Sep 17, 2026 · 28m

Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Leila Farjami, author of Daughter of Salt, about breaking the chain of familial obligations and healing from being a child of war.

Daughter of Salt is a poetry collection focused on a speaker who fiercely engages with and questions her mother, her father, ancestors, and herself. Across the poems, patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and displacement swirl together, colored by the frustration at being expected to hold it all together for everyone else; as Farjami writes, “A daughter made of salt-a dead sea to keep bodies afloat.” Throughout…