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E.A. Hanks, Daughter of Tom Hanks, Details Childhood with Troubled Mom (Exclusive)

E.A. Hanks' book 'The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road' is out April 8, and in it she writes about her childhood with a trouble mom after her parents' divorce.

Susan (who went by the stage name Samantha Lewes early in her career) got primary custody, and the kids had designated weekend and summer visits with Tom. It’s a story of her six-month road trip on Interstate 10, from L.A. to Palatka, Florida, where her mom’s family had once lived, to learn more about the complicated woman who loved Shakespeare and poetry – and who had a haunted past. Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl.

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