Paige Turner-Uribe

Favorite Book, 2024

With her oldest daughter as a young teenager, Paige Turner-Uribe navigates the parenting of mood swings and shifting self-worth that accompanies adolescence. To limit social media and build a stronger sense of self, Turner-Uribe always encourages her daughters to read grappling with what is age-appropriate material. Her daughter can often be found seated as pictured in Favorite Book (2024)–legs swung over an armchair in her bedroom with the dresser drawers open and jeans piled nearby on the floor. This daily scene is filled with both the comforts and familiarities of home alongside the other worlds offered by literature. Turner-Uribe originally did not want her daughter to read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar quite yet, as she was only 12 when she first picked it up. Accepting her daughter’s wish to read the book, Turner-Uribe acknowledges that Plath has a lot of humor. “I trust her,” she comments on the author, “she was a pioneer for women and the arts.”

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